{"meta":{"exportedAt":"2026-10-23T06:30:46.008Z","formatVersion":2,"selection":{"q":"criminal","system":"","harm":"","context":"","country":"","role":"","relation":"","evidence":"","year":"2025","response":"","severity":"","verification":"","view":"incidents","sort":"added"},"totalIncidents":36,"coverage":{"cases":36,"countries":15,"languages":13,"unknownLocation":4,"locationPending":0,"unknownLanguage":0,"unknownDate":0,"lawsuits":3,"regulatory":10,"minors":7,"coreRelations":31,"contextualRelations":4,"mixedRelations":1,"unknownRelations":2,"relationPending":2,"relationUnknown":0},"countingNote":"Distinct public cases in this selection. People counts apply within individual cases only; cross-case person overlap has not been resolved. No population incidence estimate.","affectedCountNote":"Interpret person counts with affectedCountStatus and the reported effects. Unquantified zeros are placeholders, not a measured zero.","source":"AI incidents","publisher":"NOPE","url":"https://nope.net/incidents","license":"CC BY 4.0"},"incidents":[{"id":"2025-hanoi-graduation-exam-candidates-photographed-papers-for-studyx-and-gemini-answers-criminal-case-opened","caseFacts":{"claims":[{"id":"c1","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'Qua điều tra, Công an Hà Nội xác định có 2 thí sinh đã lén mang điện thoại vào phòng thi, chụp đề thi dùng ứng dụng AI để giải.'; 'vừa ra quyết định khởi tố vụ án vô ý làm lộ bí mật nhà nước để điều tra'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"'The Hanoi police announced Tuesday they are investigating the two boys for \"accidental disclosure of classified information\" during the exams on June 26 and 27.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"}],"assertion":"Hanoi police said two candidates in the 2025 national high school graduation exam smuggled phones into exam rooms, photographed exam papers and used AI apps to solve them, and opened a criminal case for unintentionally disclosing state secrets.","causal_attribution":"The Hanoi police announcement as reported by both outlets; one origin."},{"id":"c2","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'đã lén mang điện thoại di động vào phòng thi rồi chụp ảnh một phần đề thi môn toán và đăng tải lên ứng dụng StudyX để giải đề thi nhưng chỉ chép được đáp án của 2 câu hỏi thi.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"'He then uploaded the images to the StudyX app for answers but was only able to write two answers from it before being detected.'; 'He did the same thing the next day during the Chemistry and Physics tests.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"}],"assertion":"One candidate uploaded a photo of part of the maths paper to the StudyX app but copied only two answers, and repeated this in the chemistry and physics papers the next day.","causal_attribution":"Police account as reported."},{"id":"c3","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'rồi sử dụng ứng dụng AI Gemini trên điện thoại giải đề thi. Hội đồng coi thi đã phát hiện, lập biên bản vi phạm quy chế thi, đình chỉ thi.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"'the police discovered another boy had also used a mobile phone to cheat, taking photos of the Math, History and English test papers and using AI application Gemini.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"}],"assertion":"The second candidate photographed the maths, history and English papers and used Gemini on his phone to solve them; the exam board caught him, recorded the violation and suspended him from the exam.","causal_attribution":"Police account as reported; the suspension is reported by Thanh Nien."},{"id":"c4","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'Thông tin này khiến thí sinh, phụ huynh bày tỏ băn khoăn, lo lắng về công tác bảo mật đề thi'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"'The police said students involved in this practice would be disqualified and have their test results annulled and could face administrative or criminal action.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"}],"assertion":"A photo of part of the maths paper appeared on an AI maths-solving app before the exam ended, causing candidates and parents concern about exam security; police said students who cheated this way would be disqualified, have their results annulled and could face administrative or criminal action.","causal_attribution":"Context and the police's stated consequences; whether the two candidates' results were annulled is not reported."}],"effects":[{"label":"two exam candidates became subjects of a criminal case for disclosing state secrets","claim_id":"c1","direction":"negative"},{"label":"one candidate was suspended from the exam","claim_id":"c3","direction":"negative"}],"sources":[{"id":"s1","url":"https://thanhnien.vn/khoi-to-vu-an-2-thi-sinh-dung-ai-giai-de-thi-tot-nghiep-thpt-185250701071054936.htm","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"vi","translation_note":"Read in Vietnamese by the research agent (an AI) on 2026-10-23 and translated by the research agent (an AI) into English; no human translator or reviewer was involved. Thanh Niên, 1 Jul 2025; HTTP 200, full text read. Gives the Hanoi police account; the body uses the candidates' initials, which this record omits.","independence_group":"hanoi-police-1-jul-2025"},{"id":"s2","url":"https://e.vnexpress.net/news/news/education/2-hanoi-boys-caught-using-ai-to-cheat-in-high-school-graduation-exam-4908688.html","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"Read in English by the research agent (an AI) on 2026-10-23; HTTP 200, full text read. VnExpress International, 1 Jul 2025 (PT), relaying the same Hanoi police announcement.","independence_group":"hanoi-police-1-jul-2025"}],"version":1,"ai_roles":["own_use"],"contexts":["education","justice"],"unknowns":["Whether either candidate was later charged, and the outcome of the criminal case.","Whether the candidates' results were annulled, and the candidates' ages.","What the apps produced beyond the two answers the first candidate copied."],"geography":{"basis":"The exams took place in Hanoi, Vietnam, and the investigating agency is the Hanoi police (Thanh Nien; VnExpress International). No court is involved yet.","court_countries":[],"event_countries":["VN"],"affected_person_countries":[]},"publication":{"basis":"Published as a consequential-response case: a criminal case and an exam suspension after two graduation exam candidates used StudyX and Gemini to solve photographed papers, according to the Hanoi police account reported by Thanh Nien and VnExpress International. The candidates are not named.","reviewed_on":"2026-10-23"},"ai_involvement":{"basis":"The harm is the exam board's and police's response to cheating with AI apps, reviewed as a consequential response. According to the Hanoi police account reported by Thanh Nien and VnExpress International, one candidate uploaded photos of exam papers to StudyX and copied two of its answers, and the other used Gemini on his phone to solve photographed papers. The criminal offence named is the unintended disclosure of the classified exam papers, which the candidates sent to the AI apps during the exam.","status":"reported"},"person_relations":["communicated_with"]},"name":"Hanoi police open a criminal case after two graduation exam candidates photographed exam papers and had AI apps StudyX and Gemini solve them","summary":"Hanoi police said on 1 July 2025 that they had opened a criminal case for unintentionally disclosing state secrets after two candidates in Vietnam's national high school graduation exam on 26 and 27 June 2025 smuggled phones into exam rooms, photographed exam papers and used AI apps to solve them. According to the police account reported by Thanh Nien and VnExpress, one candidate uploaded part of the maths paper to the StudyX app but copied only two answers, and did the same in the chemistry and physics papers; the other photographed the maths, history and English papers and used Gemini, was caught by the exam board and was suspended from the exam. A photo of part of the maths paper had appeared on an AI maths-solving app before the exam ended, worrying candidates and parents about exam security. Police said students who did this would be disqualified, have their results annulled and could face administrative or criminal action. Neither candidate is named.","incidentDate":"2025-06-26","incidentEndDate":"2025-06-27","incidentKind":"single_event","incidentDatePrecision":"day","exposurePattern":"repeated_interactions","reportedDate":"2025-07-01","aiSystem":"StudyX, an AI problem-solving app, and Gemini, which two exam candidates used on smuggled phones to solve photographed exam papers (per the Hanoi police account as reported)","aiProduct":"StudyX and Gemini","severity":"medium","verificationStatus":"credible","harmCategories":[],"harmOutcomes":["educational_harm","legal_harm"],"harmOutcomeSummary":"Two Hanoi graduation exam candidates became the subjects of a criminal case for disclosing state secrets, and one was suspended from the exam, after they photographed exam papers and used StudyX and Gemini to solve them, according to the Hanoi police account.","frameworkFacets":[],"causationStatus":"supported","participantUsersAffectedMin":2,"otherPeopleHarmedMin":0,"affectedCountStatus":"exact","affectedCountEvidence":"Two people: the two candidates who used the AI apps and are the subjects of the police case (Thanh Nien; VnExpress International). Candidates and parents who voiced concern are an audience and are not counted.","victimAgeRange":"unknown","jurisdiction":"VN","platformType":"other","outcomeType":"investigation_opened","outcomeStatus":"unknown","primarySourceUrl":"https://thanhnien.vn/khoi-to-vu-an-2-thi-sinh-dung-ai-giai-de-thi-tot-nghiep-thpt-185250701071054936.htm","primarySourceLabel":"Thanh Niên: criminal case opened over two candidates using AI to solve graduation exam papers (1 Jul 2025)","firstPublishedAt":"2026-10-23T03:17:52.727104+00:00","updatedAt":"2026-10-23T03:17:52.727104+00:00","scopeVersion":"facts-v3","tags":["gemini","studyx","exam-cheating","graduation-exam","criminal-investigation","vietnam","students"]},{"id":"2025-lam-dong-vietnam-exam-candidate-streamed-paper-to-friend-who-solved-it-with-chatgpt-criminal-case-opened","caseFacts":{"claims":[{"id":"c1","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'Giám thị phát hiện thí sinh nam 18 tuổi sử dụng thiết bị công nghệ cao để gian lận nên lập biên bản, đình chỉ thi ngay lập tức.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"},{"locator":"'nghi vấn sử dụng thiết bị công nghệ cao để gian lận thi cử nên đã báo cáo Trưởng điểm thi kiểm tra, lập biên bản đình chỉ thi với trường hợp trên.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"During the literature paper of the 2025 national high school graduation exam on 26 June 2025 in Lam Dong province, an invigilator caught an 18-year-old candidate using high-tech devices and recorded his suspension from the exam.","causal_attribution":"The provincial police and exam account as reported."},{"id":"c2","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'sau đó tải về, sử dụng ứng dụng ChatGPT để giải đề, đọc đáp án qua cuộc gọi Messenger'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"'Người này chỉ chụp được hai trang đề, rồi dùng ứng dụng Chat GPT giải, đọc đáp án.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"},{"locator":"'He only captured two pages of the exam and then used the ChatGPT app to solve and read the answers.'; 'He then instructed another teen, aged 17, to use the device to assist in solving and reading the answers to the exam questions.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s3"}],"assertion":"The candidate streamed the exam paper through a hidden button camera to a 17-year-old friend at an internet cafe, who photographed part of it, used the ChatGPT app to solve it and read the answers to him over a Messenger call.","causal_attribution":"Police account of the scheme, from the candidate's statements and their investigation; the outlets differ on whether one page or two were captured."},{"id":"c3","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'Công an tỉnh Lâm Đồng đã ra quyết định khởi tố vụ án hình sự “Cố ý làm lộ bí mật nhà nước; chiếm đoạt bí mật nhà nước”'; 'Bước đầu, cơ quan Công an đánh giá chỉ có 2 trường hợp'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"'The 18-year-old is currently under investigation for \"deliberate disclosure of classified information, appropriation of classified documents\" in relation to the national high school graduation exam held on Thursday and Friday.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s3"}],"assertion":"On 27 June 2025 the Lam Dong provincial police opened a criminal case for intentionally disclosing and appropriating state secrets under Article 337(2) of the Penal Code, because unreleased graduation exam papers are classified; police said only the two young people were involved.","causal_attribution":"The opening of the criminal case is the police's official act as reported by the provincial paper (the decision itself was not inspected); no charge or outcome is reported."},{"id":"c4","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'authorities had also identified three other candidates at two different exam centers who used their phones to take pictures of part of the exam questions and sent them to AI apps to solve. All three students admitted to their violations.'; 'while this was a minor incident that did not affect the security or safety of the exam'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s3"}],"assertion":"A Ministry of Public Security official said three other candidates at two exam centres photographed parts of exam papers and sent them to AI apps to solve, and that they admitted the violations; he called it a minor incident that did not affect the exam's security.","causal_attribution":"Context from the ministry press conference; the three other candidates are separate events."}],"effects":[{"label":"the candidate was suspended from the graduation exam","claim_id":"c1","direction":"negative"},{"label":"police opened a criminal case for disclosing state secrets in which they said only the candidate and the friend who used ChatGPT were involved","claim_id":"c3","direction":"negative"}],"sources":[{"id":"s1","url":"https://baolamdong.vn/cong-an-lam-dong-khoi-to-vu-an-de-dieu-tra-gian-lan-trong-de-thi-van-tot-nghiep-thpt-281996.html","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"vi","translation_note":"Read in Vietnamese by the research agent (an AI) on 2026-10-23 and translated by the research agent (an AI) into English; no human translator or reviewer was involved. Báo Lâm Đồng (provincial newspaper), 27 Jun 2025; HTTP 200, full text read. Gives the provincial police account; the body uses the young people's initials, which this record omits.","independence_group":"lam-dong-provincial-police-27-jun-2025"},{"id":"s2","url":"https://vnexpress.net/nam-sinh-tuon-de-tot-nghiep-thpt-ra-ngoai-nho-ban-dung-chatgpt-giai-4907275.html","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"vi","translation_note":"Read in Vietnamese by the research agent (an AI) on 2026-10-23 and translated by the research agent (an AI) into English; no human translator or reviewer was involved. VnExpress, 27 Jun 2025; HTTP 200, full text read. Relays the same police account and the ministry press conference.","independence_group":"lam-dong-provincial-police-27-jun-2025"},{"id":"s3","url":"https://e.vnexpress.net/news/news/education/vietnamese-student-faces-charges-for-cheating-on-high-school-graduation-exam-with-chatgpt-4907386.html","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"Read in English by the research agent (an AI) on 2026-10-23; HTTP 200, full text read. English version of the VnExpress report of the same police account.","independence_group":"lam-dong-provincial-police-27-jun-2025"}],"version":1,"ai_roles":["own_use"],"contexts":["education","justice"],"unknowns":["Whether either young person was later charged as a defendant, and the outcome of the criminal case.","Whether the candidate's exam results were annulled and how the suspension affected his university admission.","What ChatGPT produced and how much of it the candidate copied."],"geography":{"basis":"The exam centre is in Lam Dong province, Vietnam, and the investigating agency is the Lam Dong provincial police (Bao Lam Dong; VnExpress). No court is involved yet.","court_countries":[],"event_countries":["VN"],"affected_person_countries":[]},"publication":{"basis":"Published as a consequential-response case: an exam suspension and a criminal case opened after a candidate's friend used ChatGPT to solve the streamed graduation exam paper, according to the Lam Dong police account reported by the provincial paper and VnExpress. The two young people are not named.","reviewed_on":"2026-10-23"},"ai_involvement":{"basis":"The harm is the exam authorities' and police's response to cheating in which ChatGPT solved the exam paper, reviewed as a consequential response. According to the police account reported by Bao Lam Dong and VnExpress, the friend uploaded photographs of the streamed paper to the ChatGPT app, which produced the answers he read to the candidate in the exam room. The suspension was for using high-tech devices, and the criminal offence named is the disclosure and appropriation of the classified paper, which the scheme sent outside the room and into ChatGPT.","status":"reported"},"person_relations":["communicated_with"]},"name":"Vietnamese police open a criminal case after an exam candidate streamed his graduation exam paper to a friend who solved it with ChatGPT","summary":"On 26 June 2025, during the literature paper of Vietnam's national high school graduation exam in Lam Dong province, an invigilator caught an 18-year-old candidate using a hidden button camera and wireless earpiece and suspended him from the exam. According to the provincial police account reported by Bao Lam Dong and VnExpress, he had streamed the paper to a 17-year-old friend at an internet cafe, who photographed part of it, used the ChatGPT app to solve it and read the answers to him over a Messenger call. On 27 June 2025 the Lam Dong police security investigation agency opened a criminal case for intentionally disclosing and appropriating state secrets, because unreleased graduation exam papers are classified; police said initially that only the two young people were involved and that they had found no further sharing of the paper. Neither is named.","incidentDate":"2025-06-26","incidentKind":"single_event","incidentDatePrecision":"day","exposurePattern":"single_interaction","reportedDate":"2025-06-27","aiSystem":"ChatGPT app, which the candidate's friend used to solve photographed pages of the literature exam paper and whose answers were read to the candidate over a call (per the Lam Dong police account as reported)","aiProduct":"ChatGPT","severity":"medium","verificationStatus":"credible","harmCategories":[],"harmOutcomes":["educational_harm","legal_harm"],"harmOutcomeSummary":"An 18-year-old candidate was suspended from Vietnam's national graduation exam and police opened a criminal case for disclosing state secrets in which they said only he and a 17-year-old friend were involved after the friend used ChatGPT to solve the streamed exam paper, according to the Lam Dong police account.","frameworkFacets":[],"causationStatus":"supported","participantUsersAffectedMin":1,"otherPeopleHarmedMin":1,"affectedCountStatus":"exact","affectedCountEvidence":"Two people: the 17-year-old friend who used ChatGPT (participant user) and the 18-year-old candidate who received its answers and was suspended from the exam (other person); police say the case concerns only these two (Bao Lam Dong). The three other candidates mentioned by the ministry official are separate events and are not counted.","victimAgeRange":"minor","jurisdiction":"VN","platformType":"other","outcomeType":"investigation_opened","outcomeStatus":"unknown","primarySourceUrl":"https://baolamdong.vn/cong-an-lam-dong-khoi-to-vu-an-de-dieu-tra-gian-lan-trong-de-thi-van-tot-nghiep-thpt-281996.html","primarySourceLabel":"Báo Lâm Đồng: Lam Dong police open criminal case over cheating in the graduation exam literature paper (27 Jun 2025)","firstPublishedAt":"2026-10-23T03:14:59.178559+00:00","updatedAt":"2026-10-23T03:14:59.178559+00:00","scopeVersion":"facts-v3","tags":["chatgpt","exam-cheating","graduation-exam","criminal-investigation","vietnam","students"]},{"id":"2025-seoul-court-fines-district-office-official-for-posting-generative-ai-fake-couple-photos-of-female-colleague","caseFacts":{"claims":[{"id":"c1","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'구청 조직도에서 내려받은 같은 과 B씨의 사진을 생성형 AI를 활용해 자신과 연인 사이인 것처럼 합성한 뒤 네 차례에 걸쳐 자신의 SNS 프로필에 게시한 혐의를 받는다'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"'AI로 이를 합성해 마치 연인 관계인 것처럼 꾸며 자신의 SNS 프로필에 게시한 것으로 조사됐다'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s3"},{"locator":"'동료 여직원의 얼굴을 인공지능(AI)으로 합성해 마치 연인 사이인 것처럼 가짜 사진을 만들어 자신의 소셜미디어(SNS)에 올린'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"}],"assertion":"Under the charges, in November 2025 he took a photo of a female colleague in the same department from the office's organisation chart, used generative AI to composite it into pictures making them look like a couple, and posted them four times on his social media profile.","causal_attribution":"The charges as reported by Yonhap and Newslaw; Kyeonggi Ilbo also says the faces were composited with AI and names a photo-editing app (claim c5)."},{"id":"c2","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'총 600만원(성폭력처벌법 위반 500만원·명예훼손 100만원)의 벌금을 선고했다'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"'공소사실 전부를 유죄로 인정했다'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"}],"assertion":"On 11 September 2026 the Seoul Southern District Court convicted him on all counts and fined him 6 million won in total (5 million won under the Sexual Violence Punishment Act and 1 million won for defamation).","causal_attribution":"Court outcome as reported; the judgment was not inspected."},{"id":"c3","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'피해자는 피고인이 올린 허위 영상물을 보고 수치심, 모욕감, 혐오감이 한 번에 몰려왔다고 진술하고 있다'; '사건 이후 사내에 소문이 퍼져 수치심과 두려움이 크다고 말하는 상황'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"The judge cited the colleague's statement that she felt shame, insult and disgust on seeing the images and that rumours had spread at work, leaving her ashamed and afraid.","causal_attribution":"The judge's account of the victim's statement."},{"id":"c4","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'초기 수사 단계에서는 '혐의없음' 처분을 받으며 논란이 됐다'; '지난 17일 법원에 항소장을 냈고, 검찰 역시 양형이 가볍다고 보고 항소한 것으로 알려졌다'; '해임 처분을 의결했다'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s3"}],"assertion":"Police initially found no offence; afterwards he and the prosecution both appealed and the Seoul city personnel committee voted to dismiss him.","causal_attribution":"Newslaw report; the dismissal decision itself was not inspected."},{"id":"c5","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'사진 편집 애플리케이션(앱)을 이용해'; '동료 여직원의 얼굴을 인공지능(AI)으로 합성해'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"}],"assertion":"Kyeonggi Ilbo, which also says the compositing was done with AI, says he made the pictures with a photo-editing app.","causal_attribution":"Detail on the tool; the same report says the compositing was done with AI, so it does not contradict the charges reported by Yonhap. No product is named."},{"id":"c6","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'명예훼손 혐의와 허위 영상물 제작·게시 사실은 인정하면서도'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"},{"locator":"'자신이 게시한 영상물이 피해자의 성적 수치심을 유발하기 어렵고 그럴 고의도 없었다고 주장했지만'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"In court he admitted the defamation and making and posting the false images, but denied that they could cause sexual shame or that he intended that.","causal_attribution":"The defendant's position in court as reported by Kyeonggi Ilbo and Yonhap."}],"effects":[{"label":"colleague felt shame, insult and disgust and faced workplace rumours after AI-composited fake couple photos were posted, per the court","claim_id":"c3","direction":"negative"}],"sources":[{"id":"s1","url":"https://www.yna.co.kr/view/AKR20260911101300004","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"ko","translation_note":"Read in the original Korean on 2026-10-22 (HTTP 200). English renderings in this record are the research agent's (an AI's) own translations; no human translator reviewed them. Report of the 11 September 2026 ruling and the charges.","independence_group":"seoul-southern-district-court-ruling-reporting"},{"id":"s2","url":"https://www.kyeonggi.com/article/20260911580223","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"ko","translation_note":"Read in the original Korean on 2026-10-22 (HTTP 200). English renderings in this record are the research agent's (an AI's) own translations; no human translator reviewed them. Separate report of the same hearing; it describes the tool as a photo-editing app.","independence_group":"seoul-southern-district-court-ruling-reporting"},{"id":"s3","url":"https://www.newslaw.co.kr/ko-kr/articles/2255","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"ko","translation_note":"Read in the original Korean on 2026-10-22 (HTTP 200). English renderings in this record are the research agent's (an AI's) own translations; no human translator reviewed them. Later report on the dismissal, the appeals and the initial police decision.","independence_group":"newslaw-dismissal-and-appeal-report"}],"version":1,"ai_roles":["others_use"],"contexts":["work","relationships","justice"],"unknowns":["Which AI tool or app was used; the reports name generative AI and a photo-editing app but no product.","The outcome of the appeals and of any challenge to the dismissal.","How widely the photos were seen."],"geography":{"basis":"The photo came from a Seoul district office's organisation chart, the colleague works at that office, and the Seoul Southern District Court decided the case.","court_countries":["KR"],"event_countries":["KR"],"affected_person_countries":["KR"]},"publication":{"basis":"Published as a core case (depicted_or_impersonated): a Seoul court convicted and fined an official whose charges say he used generative AI to make fake couple photos of a colleague and posted them, and cited her shame and workplace rumours. Two reporting chains (ruling reports; Newslaw on the dismissal); one report also describes the tool as a photo-editing app.","reviewed_on":"2026-10-22"},"ai_involvement":{"basis":"The charges, as reported by Yonhap and Newslaw, state that he used generative AI to composite the colleague's photo into fake couple pictures, and the court convicted him on all counts. The pictures depicted the colleague (depicted_or_impersonated) and the judge cited her shame and the rumours that followed. Kyeonggi Ilbo also says he composited the photos with AI and describes the tool as a photo-editing app; he admitted in court making and posting the false images. The technical basis of the AI description is not disclosed.","status":"supported"},"person_relations":["depicted_or_impersonated"]},"name":"Seoul court fines a district office official 6 million won for posting generative-AI fake couple photos of a female colleague on his social media profile","summary":"The Seoul Southern District Court on 11 September 2026 fined a male official in his fifties at a Seoul district office a total of 6 million won for making and posting false images and for defamation, according to Korean reports of the ruling. Under the charges, in November 2025 he took a photo of a female colleague in his department from the office's organisation chart, used generative AI to composite it into pictures that made them look like a couple, and posted them four times on his social media profile. The judge cited the colleague's statement that she felt shame, insult and disgust, and that rumours had spread at work. Police had initially found no offence before the case was sent back to prosecutors. Both he and the prosecution appealed, and the Seoul city personnel committee voted to dismiss him.","incidentDate":"2025-11-01","incidentKind":"single_event","incidentDatePrecision":"month","exposurePattern":"repeated_interactions","reportedDate":"2026-09-11","aiSystem":"Generative AI, not named in the reports, used to composite a colleague's photo into fake couple pictures (one report also describes the tool as a photo-editing app)","aiProduct":"Unidentified image tool","severity":"medium","verificationStatus":"credible","harmCategories":[],"harmOutcomes":["psychological_distress","reputational_harm"],"harmOutcomeSummary":"According to the court as reported, a colleague whose photo was composited with generative AI into fake couple pictures posted on an official's social media felt shame, insult and disgust, and rumours spread at work; the official was fined and dismissed.","frameworkFacets":[],"causationStatus":"established","participantUsersAffectedMin":0,"otherPeopleHarmedMin":1,"affectedCountStatus":"exact","affectedCountEvidence":"One person, the colleague depicted in the photos (court ruling as reported). Exact 1.","victimAgeRange":"adult","jurisdiction":"KR","platformType":"other","outcomeType":"criminal_charges","outcomeStatus":"ongoing","primarySourceUrl":"https://www.yna.co.kr/view/AKR20260911101300004","primarySourceLabel":"Yonhap News Agency, 11 September 2026: district official who composited a colleague's face with AI fined","firstPublishedAt":"2026-10-22T03:23:44.455411+00:00","updatedAt":"2026-10-22T03:23:44.455411+00:00","scopeVersion":"facts-v3","tags":["ai-composite","workplace","false-images","criminal-fine","south-korea","depicted-or-impersonated"]},{"id":"2025-karnataka-police-say-ai-generated-trump-video-promoted-trump-hotel-rental-investment-app-lawyer-lost-savings","caseFacts":{"claims":[{"id":"c1","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'allegedly lured him into investing in a Trump Hotel rentals scheme using an AI-generated video of US President Donald Trump promising high returns, police said on Monday'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"'The police said cybercriminals used the AI-generated video of Donald Trump to dupe people in Bengaluru, Tumakuru, Mangaluru, and Haveri.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"}],"assertion":"Police said the cybercriminals used an AI-generated video of Donald Trump to draw people into a fake 'Trump Hotel Rentals' investment scheme run through a mobile app.","causal_attribution":"Attributed to police by two outlets; the technical basis is not stated, and the police release PTI quotes does not mention AI."},{"id":"c2","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'he came across a video on YouTube offering an investment opportunity in \"Donald Trump Hotel Rentals.\"'; 'When he clicked the link, he was directed to download a mobile application.'; 'he deposited Rs 5,93,240 to various bank accounts, UPI IDs, and digital wallets between January 25 and April 4.'; 'However, he stopped receiving returns and was unable to recover the invested amount.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"'claimed he deposited Rs 5,93,240 between January 25 and April 4 this year'; 'In January this year, I came across shorts on YouTube that offered to invest in the Donald Trump Hotel.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"}],"assertion":"A lawyer saw YouTube videos offering investment in 'Donald Trump Hotel Rentals' in January 2025, downloaded the app and deposited Rs 5,93,240 between 25 January and 4 April 2025, and could not recover it.","causal_attribution":"The lawyer's own account, given in his complaint as relayed by police to PTI and in his interview with the Indian Express: one witness, so reported; whether the clips he saw contained the AI-generated video rests on the police attribution."},{"id":"c3","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'A case has been registered under the IT Act and Section 318(4) (cheating) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, police said.'; 'Rs 1.5 lakh in the bank account to which the money was transferred has been frozen, a senior police officer said.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"Police registered a case under the IT Act and the cheating provision of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita and froze Rs 1.5 lakh in the receiving account.","causal_attribution":"Police statements reported by PTI."},{"id":"c4","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'More than 200 investors from Karnataka have complained to cybercops that they were collectively defrauded of nearly Rs 2 crore'; 'A total of 15 cases have been registered in Haveri district.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s3"},{"locator":"'has been used to dupe more than 200 people in the last few months in several cities of Karnataka'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"}],"assertion":"More than 200 investors in Karnataka complained to cyber police of losing nearly Rs 2 crore through the app, with cases registered in several districts, 15 of them in Haveri.","causal_attribution":"Police figures relayed by both outlets; one underlying origin. Whether each complainant saw the AI-generated video is not established."}],"effects":[{"label":"lawyer lost Rs 5,93,240 deposited into the fake app after the video","claim_id":"c2","direction":"negative"}],"sources":[{"id":"s1","url":"https://www.theweek.in/wire-updates/national/2025/05/26/mes19-ka-cyber-fraud.html","kind":"wire_report","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"PTI copy republished by The Week; the live page returned 403, so a 2025 Internet Archive capture was read in full in English by the research agent (an AI) on 2026-10-21. No translation was needed.","independence_group":"pti-haveri-police"},{"id":"s2","url":"https://indianexpress.com/article/cities/bangalore/ai-generated-trump-video-dupe-people-karnataka-10029617/","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"The live page returned 403; a 2025 Internet Archive capture was read in full in English by the research agent (an AI) on 2026-10-21. Includes the Indian Express's own interview with the lawyer. No translation was needed.","independence_group":"indian-express-karnataka"},{"id":"s3","url":"https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/bengaluru/trump-app-over-200-in-karnataka-fall-prey-to-investment-fraud-lose-rs-2-crore/articleshow/121428182.cms","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"Read in English by the research agent (an AI) on 2026-10-21 (HTTP 200). Own reporting with a police inspector's quotes. No translation was needed.","independence_group":"times-of-india-bengaluru"}],"version":1,"ai_roles":["others_use"],"contexts":["finance"],"unknowns":["How the police established that the Trump video was AI-generated, and which tool made it.","How many of the more than 200 complainants saw the video before investing.","Whether anyone has been arrested or any money returned beyond the Rs 1.5 lakh frozen."],"geography":{"basis":"Police in Karnataka, India, registered the cases, including the lawyer's complaint, and the reports place the victims in Karnataka districts.","court_countries":[],"event_countries":["IN"],"affected_person_countries":["IN"]},"publication":{"basis":"Published because investigating police, as reported separately by PTI and the Indian Express, attributed the scheme's promotion to an AI-generated Trump video, and a lawyer's loss of Rs 5,93,240 after seeing such videos is reported from both his police complaint and his own interview. The police attribution's technical basis is undisclosed.","reviewed_on":"2026-10-21"},"ai_involvement":{"basis":"Investigating police, as reported separately by PTI and the Indian Express, said the scheme used an AI-generated video of Donald Trump to dupe people into the scheme; the lawyer says he saw such YouTube shorts and then installed the app and deposited his money (depicted_or_impersonated: the generated video impersonated Trump toward the people it deceived). The technical basis for the police attribution is not disclosed, and the police release quoted by PTI mentions only fake links. No generation tool is identified.","status":"reported"},"person_relations":["depicted_or_impersonated"]},"name":"Karnataka police say an AI-generated Trump video promoted a fake 'Trump Hotel Rental' investment app; a lawyer lost about Rs 5.9 lakh","summary":"Police in Karnataka, India, said in May 2025 that cybercriminals used an AI-generated video of US President Donald Trump to draw people into a fake 'Trump Hotel Rentals' investment scheme run through a mobile app. A lawyer told police and the Indian Express that in January 2025 he saw short YouTube videos offering investment in Donald Trump hotels, downloaded the app, and deposited Rs 5,93,240 between 25 January and 4 April 2025 after small early payouts, then could not withdraw anything. Police registered a case under the IT Act and the cheating provision of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita and froze Rs 1.5 lakh in a recipient account. Reports describe more than 200 complaints across Karnataka districts with losses near Rs 2 crore; how many of those people saw the video is not established. The technical basis for the police description of the video as AI-generated is not disclosed.","incidentDate":"2025-01-25","incidentEndDate":"2025-04-04","incidentKind":"bounded_series","incidentDatePrecision":"day","exposurePattern":"single_interaction","reportedDate":"2025-05-26","aiSystem":"Video of Donald Trump promoting 'Trump Hotel Rentals' that police described as AI-generated, used to draw people to a fraudulent investment app; no generation tool is identified","aiProduct":"Unidentified video tool","severity":"medium","verificationStatus":"credible","harmCategories":[],"harmOutcomes":["financial_loss"],"harmOutcomeSummary":"According to police and his own account, a lawyer lost Rs 5,93,240 after a YouTube video, which police described as AI-generated, promoting a fake Trump hotel investment app; police report more than 200 complaints statewide.","frameworkFacets":[],"causationStatus":"alleged","participantUsersAffectedMin":0,"otherPeopleHarmedMin":1,"affectedCountStatus":"partial","affectedCountEvidence":"One person counted: the lawyer, whose loss after seeing the video is reported by PTI (from police) and by the Indian Express (his own account). The Times of India reports more than 200 complainants and police claims of more than 800 investors, but the inspected sources do not establish how many of them saw the AI-generated video, so they are left unquantified. He did not use the AI tool, so he is counted under other people harmed.","victimAgeRange":"adult","jurisdiction":"IN","platformType":"other","outcomeType":"investigation_opened","outcomeStatus":"ongoing","primarySourceUrl":"https://www.theweek.in/wire-updates/national/2025/05/26/mes19-ka-cyber-fraud.html","primarySourceLabel":"PTI via The Week: Karnataka lawyer duped by cyber fraudsters using AI-generated Trump video (26 May 2025)","firstPublishedAt":"2026-10-21T03:05:31.782805+00:00","updatedAt":"2026-10-21T03:05:31.782805+00:00","scopeVersion":"facts-v3","tags":["india","karnataka","investment-fraud","trump-impersonation","ai-generated-video","task-scam","youtube"]},{"id":"2025-sixth-circuit-removes-appointed-defence-lawyer-over-cocounsel-drafted-briefs-delaying-indigent-defendants-appeal","caseFacts":{"claims":[{"id":"c1","status":"documented","evidence":[{"locator":"'qualified for a two-level enhancement under § 3B1.1(c) of the Sentencing Guidelines for his leadership role during drug-trafficking activities.'; 'serving as court-appointed counsel for an indigent defendant through a publicly funded program'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"A lawyer appointed under the Criminal Justice Act represented an indigent defendant appealing a two-level leadership enhancement to his drug-trafficking sentence in the Sixth Circuit.","causal_attribution":"The court's own description of the appointment and the appeal."},{"id":"c2","status":"documented","evidence":[{"locator":"'The first tell was the file name of the principal brief:'; '“CoCounsel Skill Results.” CoCounsel is the name of Westlaw’s internal artificial-intelligence'; 'But the purported direct quotations do not appear in their cited sources.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"'The first tell was the file name of the principal brief: \"CoCounsel Skill Results.\" CoCounsel is the name of Westlaw's internal artificial-intelligence platform.'; 'But the purported direct quotations do not appear in their cited sources.'; 'misrepresent the holdings of both United States v. Washington'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"}],"assertion":"The court found that the principal brief's file name was 'CoCounsel Skill Results', that three quotations in the briefs appear in no legal authority, and that the briefs misrepresented the holdings of two precedents.","causal_attribution":"The court's findings, quoted verbatim in the Volokh post; the opinion PDF carries the same text."},{"id":"c3","status":"documented","evidence":[{"locator":"'he directed an unnamed “staff” member to'; 'upload district court documents to Westlaw’s CoCounsel program to create a first draft of the'; 'repeated that same process for the reply brief.'; 'He concedes that the three inaccurate quotations'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"'he directed an unnamed \"staff\" member to upload district court documents to Westlaw's CoCounsel program to create a first draft of the principal brief.'; 'He concedes that the three inaccurate quotations identified above were the product of artificial intelligence, that they do not appear in any legal authorities'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"}],"assertion":"The lawyer admitted that a staff member uploaded district court documents to Westlaw's CoCounsel to create a first draft of the principal brief, that he repeated the process for the reply, and that the three inaccurate quotations were produced by artificial intelligence and not verified.","causal_attribution":"The lawyer's show-cause response as the court records it; the court's opinion documents the admission."},{"id":"c4","status":"documented","evidence":[{"locator":"'shall not be compensated under the Criminal Justice Act for his time spent on'; 'to consider disciplinary proceedings under Sixth'; 'Disciplinary Clerk for the Kentucky Bar Association'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"The court ordered that the lawyer receive no Criminal Justice Act compensation for the appeal, forwarded the opinion to the circuit's chief judge to consider disciplinary proceedings, and served it on the Kentucky Bar Association's disciplinary clerk.","causal_attribution":"The court's orders."},{"id":"c5","status":"documented","evidence":[{"locator":"'different appellate counsel to file new briefs—further delaying resolution of'; 'reset the briefing schedule upon appointment of replacement counsel.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"By a separate order the same day the court removed the lawyer, directed the appointment of replacement counsel, locked the briefs he had filed and reset the briefing schedule, which the court said further delayed resolution of the defendant's criminal appeal.","causal_attribution":"The court's own account of its separate order and of the delay."},{"id":"c6","status":"documented","evidence":[{"locator":"'utilizing Westlaw CoCounsel “in this way for a Court of Appeals brief.”'; 'has never been disciplined over his 40-year career'; 'candor in acknowledging his improper use of artificial intelligence.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"'first time utilizing Westlaw CoCounsel \"in this way for a Court of Appeals brief.\"'; 'has never been disciplined over his 40-year career'; 'his candor in acknowledging his improper use of artificial intelligence.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"}],"assertion":"The lawyer said this was his first use of CoCounsel in this way for an appeals brief and that he had not been disciplined in a 40-year career; the court acknowledged his timely response and candour while finding his conduct inexcusable.","causal_attribution":"The lawyer's explanations and the court's assessment, as the opinion records them; recorded as mitigation."},{"id":"c7","status":"documented","evidence":[{"locator":"'***LOCKED PURSUANT TO ORDER ENTERED 04/03/2026***APPELLANT BRIEF filed by'; 'Certificate of Service: 10/21/2025. Argument Request: not requested. [25-5623]'; '***LOCKED PURSUANT TO ORDER ENTERED 04/03/2026***REPLY BRIEF filed by Attorney'; 'Certificate of Service: 12/26/2025. [25-5623]'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s3"}],"assertion":"The docket records that the principal brief for the defendant was filed on 21 October 2025 and the reply brief on 26 December 2025, and that both entries were locked under the order of 3 April 2026.","causal_attribution":"Clerk docket entries; they date the filings and do not describe their contents."}],"effects":[{"label":"indigent defendant's criminal appeal delayed while replacement counsel files new briefs","claim_id":"c5","direction":"negative"},{"label":"court-appointed lawyer denied compensation for the appeal and referred for disciplinary consideration","claim_id":"c4","direction":"negative"}],"sources":[{"id":"s1","url":"https://www.opn.ca6.uscourts.gov/opinions.pdf/26a0105p-06.pdf","kind":"court_order","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"Sixth Circuit published per curiam opinion, No. 25-5623, decided and filed 3 April 2026; PDF read in full (HTTP 200).","independence_group":"sixth-circuit-opinion-3-apr-2026"},{"id":"s2","url":"https://reason.com/volokh/2026/04/09/the-first-tell-was-the-file-name-of-the-principal-brief-cocounsel-skill-results/","kind":"commentary_with_filing_excerpt","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"The Volokh Conspiracy (Reason), 9 April 2026, quoting the same opinion at length; read in full (HTTP 200). Same origin as the opinion.","independence_group":"sixth-circuit-opinion-3-apr-2026"},{"id":"s3","url":"https://www.courtlistener.com/api/rest/v4/search/?q=docket_id%3A70724463%20BRIEF&type=rd","kind":"court_docket_index","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"CourtListener search API listing of docket entries for Sixth Circuit No. 25-5623 (RECAP), read on 2026-10-19 (HTTP 200); entry descriptions as entered by the clerk. Party and counsel names in the entries are not reproduced.","independence_group":"sixth-circuit-docket-25-5623"}],"version":1,"ai_roles":["own_use","others_use"],"contexts":["justice","work"],"unknowns":["How long the appeal is delayed, and the outcome of any disciplinary proceedings."],"geography":{"basis":"The appeal is from the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, and the lawyer practises in Kentucky (opinion).","court_countries":["US"],"event_countries":["US"],"affected_person_countries":["US"]},"publication":{"basis":"Published with communicated_with and informed_decision_about: the court documents that a court-appointed defence lawyer filed briefs drafted with Westlaw's CoCounsel that carried quotations found in no authority, and, acting on those briefs, removed him, ordered new counsel and briefing that delayed the indigent defendant's criminal appeal, and denied him compensation. The harm reaches a criminal defendant who did not use the tool.","reviewed_on":"2026-10-19"},"ai_involvement":{"basis":"The court found that the principal brief's file name was 'CoCounsel Skill Results' and that three quotations in the briefs appear in no legal authority. The lawyer admitted that a staff member used Westlaw's CoCounsel to produce the first draft, that he repeated the process for the reply, and that the false quotations were produced by artificial intelligence. Reading those briefs, the court removed him, ordered new counsel and new briefs for the defendant, and denied him compensation.","status":"supported"},"person_relations":["communicated_with","informed_decision_about"]},"name":"Sixth Circuit removes court-appointed defence lawyer over CoCounsel-drafted briefs with false quotations, delaying an indigent defendant's appeal","summary":"In a published opinion of 3 April 2026, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit addressed the briefs a lawyer appointed under the Criminal Justice Act had filed for an indigent defendant appealing a sentencing enhancement in a drug-trafficking case. The court noticed that the principal brief's file name was 'CoCounsel Skill Results' and found three quotations that appear in no legal authority and misstatements of two precedents. The lawyer admitted that a staff member had used Westlaw's CoCounsel to create the first draft, that he repeated the process for the reply, and that the false quotations came from artificial intelligence he did not verify. The court denied him compensation for the appeal, referred the opinion for possible disciplinary proceedings and to the Kentucky Bar Association, and by separate order removed him, locked his briefs and ordered replacement counsel to file new ones, which it said further delayed resolution of the defendant's appeal. The court acknowledged his candour and his 40 years without discipline.","incidentDate":"2025-10-21","incidentEndDate":"2026-04-03","incidentKind":"single_event","incidentDatePrecision":"day","exposurePattern":"repeated_interactions","reportedDate":"2026-04-03","aiSystem":"Westlaw CoCounsel (Thomson Reuters), used by a lawyer's staff member to produce the first drafts of a principal and a reply brief","aiProduct":"CoCounsel","aiCompany":"Thomson Reuters","severity":"medium","verificationStatus":"credible","harmCategories":[],"harmOutcomes":["legal_harm","professional_harm","financial_loss"],"harmOutcomeSummary":"The court documents that briefs drafted with Westlaw's CoCounsel and filed unverified by a court-appointed lawyer led it to remove him and order new counsel and briefs, further delaying an indigent defendant's criminal appeal; the lawyer was denied compensation for the appeal and referred for disciplinary consideration.","frameworkFacets":[],"causationStatus":"established","participantUsersAffectedMin":0,"otherPeopleHarmedMin":2,"affectedCountStatus":"exact","affectedCountEvidence":"Two: the defendant, whose appeal the court says was further delayed, and the lawyer, who was denied compensation and referred. The lawyer's staff member ran the tool and is not counted; no other harmed person is described.","victimAgeRange":"adult","jurisdiction":"US","platformType":"other","outcomeType":"regulatory_action","outcomeStatus":"ongoing","primarySourceUrl":"https://www.opn.ca6.uscourts.gov/opinions.pdf/26a0105p-06.pdf","primarySourceLabel":"U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, No. 25-5623, opinion decided and filed 3 April 2026","firstPublishedAt":"2026-10-19T03:16:56.688661+00:00","updatedAt":"2026-10-19T03:16:56.688661+00:00","scopeVersion":"facts-v3","tags":["legal","ai-fabricated-quotations","court-appointed-counsel","criminal-appeal","sanction","cocounsel"]},{"id":"2025-hannover-region-pupil-told-tipster-he-made-ai-nude-images-of-classmates-police-confirm-case","caseFacts":{"claims":[{"id":"c1","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'Am 20. Februar 2025 habe er auf Telegram eine Gruppe geöffnet'; 'Daraufhin habe sich ein Nutzer privat bei ihm gemeldet'; 'der Nutzer habe plötzlich davon gesprochen, dass er mit Künstlicher Intelligenz Nacktbilder von Mitschülerinnen erstellt habe.'; 'Der Nutzer habe ihm dann ungefragt Bilder geschickt.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"The tipster says that on 20 February 2025 a Telegram user wrote to him privately, said he had created nude images of female classmates with artificial intelligence, and sent him images without being asked.","causal_attribution":"The boy's statement is relayed only by the tipster; one origin."},{"id":"c2","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'Die Originalaufnahmen kamen von Snapchat, Instagram, teilweise waren die Schülerinnen aber auch aus der Ferne im Klassenraum fotografiert worden'; 'Mithilfe von Künstlicher Intelligenz habe der Nutzer auf Grundlage dieser Bilder Nacktfotos von den Mädchen erstellt und sie auch in sexuellen Stellungen gezeigt.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"The tipster says the images were made with AI from the girls' Snapchat and Instagram photos and from photos taken of them in the classroom, and showed them nude and in sexual positions.","causal_attribution":"Tipster's description of the images he received; the tool is not named."},{"id":"c3","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'eines der Mädchen, von dem die Nacktbilder erstellt worden waren. Auf Tiktok fand er eine weitere Betroffene.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"The tipster says he identified one of the depicted girls through a student council post and found a second affected girl on TikTok.","causal_attribution":"Tipster's account; the count of two is his."},{"id":"c4","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'dass sich ein Hinweisgeber telefonisch bei ihr gemeldet und den beschriebenen Vorgang geschildert habe.'; '„Der ist heute nicht mehr bei uns auf der Schule.“'; 'Informiert habe sie die Schülerinnen nicht, davon habe die Polizei abgeraten.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"The headteacher confirms that a tipster phoned her and described the events, says the pupil no longer attends the school, and says she did not inform the girls because the police advised against it.","causal_attribution":"Headteacher's statement to FAZ."},{"id":"c5","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'Die Polizei der Stadt Hannover, in deren Umgebung die betroffene Schule liegt, bestätigt den Sachverhalt auf Nachfrage. Bei der ermittelten Person handele es sich um ein strafunmündiges Kind.'; 'Trotzdem bekam der Telegram-Nutzer Besuch von der Polizei: Es seien eine Gefährderansprache „sowie eine Sensibilisierung im Umgang mit digitalen Medien und den möglichen Folgen durchgeführt worden“, teilt ein Polizeisprecher mit.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"The Hannover police confirm the facts, say the person identified is a child below the age of criminal responsibility, and say officers held a warning talk with him together with a session on digital media and its possible consequences.","causal_attribution":"Police statement as reported by FAZ; FAZ paraphrases the confirmation and does not quote the police on the AI element."}],"effects":[{"label":"AI-generated nude and sexualised images of female classmates made from their photographs and sent on Telegram","claim_id":"c2","direction":"negative"}],"sources":[{"id":"s1","url":"https://www.faz.net/aktuell/gesellschaft/kriminalitaet/wie-paul-buyse-einen-13-jaehrigen-enttarnte-der-ki-pornos-verbreitete-201316731.html","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"de","translation_note":"Read in German by the research agent (an AI) on 2026-10-18 and translated by the research agent (an AI) into English; no human translator or reviewer was involved. FAZ report by Sebastian Eder, 15 October 2026, read in full (including the JSON-LD article body) through an Internet Archive capture of the article URL because faz.net returned a consent redirect (HTTP 302) to the fetcher.","independence_group":"faz-15-oct-2026"}],"version":1,"ai_roles":["others_use"],"contexts":["education","privacy"],"unknowns":["Which AI tool was used and when the images were first made.","How many girls were depicted and whether the images reached anyone beyond the tipster.","How the police verified that the images were AI-generated.","Whether the school took further measures beyond the pupil leaving it, and why he left."],"geography":{"basis":"FAZ says the school lies in the area of the city of Hannover, Germany, and the Hannover police handled the case; the girls are pupils at that school.","court_countries":[],"event_countries":["DE"],"affected_person_countries":["DE"]},"publication":{"basis":"Published as a core case (depicted_or_impersonated): the boy told the tipster he had made nude images of female classmates with artificial intelligence, the tipster describes the images he received, and the Hannover police confirm the facts and held a warning talk with the child. The sexual depiction of the girls is the harm. Every claim is reported from one FAZ article; the school, the girls and the child are not named.","reviewed_on":"2026-10-18"},"ai_involvement":{"basis":"The boy himself told the tipster he had created nude images of female classmates with artificial intelligence, and the tipster describes the images he was then sent: nude photos and sexual positions generated from the girls' Snapchat, Instagram and classroom photos. The generated images depicting the girls are the reported harm. The Hannover police confirm the facts as described to FAZ and identified the child; FAZ does not say how the police established that the images were AI-generated, and the tool is not named.","status":"reported"},"person_relations":["depicted_or_impersonated"]},"name":"Hannover region: a pupil told a tipster he made AI nude images of female classmates and sent them on Telegram; police confirm the case, FAZ reports","summary":"The Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung reported on 15 October 2026 that a tipster who monitors abuse of women streamers had traced a schoolboy at a school near Hannover, Germany, who distributed AI-generated nude images of female classmates. According to the tipster, on 20 February 2025 a Telegram user wrote to him privately, said he had made nude images of classmates with artificial intelligence and sent him images unasked. The tipster says the images were made from the girls' Snapchat and Instagram photos and from photos taken of them in the classroom, and showed them nude and in sexual positions. He identified two of the depicted girls online, worked out the boy's school and class, and phoned the headteacher, who confirmed his call to the newspaper. The Hannover police confirmed the facts, said the person identified is a child below the age of criminal responsibility, and said officers held a warning talk with him and explained the possible consequences of his use of digital media. The headteacher says the pupil no longer attends the school and that, on police advice, the girls were not told. The school is not named.","incidentDate":"2025-02-01","incidentKind":"single_event","incidentDatePrecision":"month","exposurePattern":"unknown","reportedDate":"2026-10-15","aiSystem":"Unnamed AI tool that, according to the tipster's account of the boy's own statement and of the images he was sent, generated nude and sexualised images of real schoolgirls from their photographs; no tool is named","aiProduct":"Unidentified image tool","severity":"high","verificationStatus":"credible","harmCategories":[],"harmOutcomes":["exploitation_or_abuse"],"harmOutcomeSummary":"According to the tipster, AI-generated nude and sexualised images of female classmates made from their photographs were sent to him on Telegram; the police confirm the facts and held a warning talk with the child who made them.","frameworkFacets":[],"causationStatus":"alleged","participantUsersAffectedMin":0,"otherPeopleHarmedMin":2,"affectedCountStatus":"partial","affectedCountEvidence":"Two girls the tipster identified as depicted (one through a student council post, one on TikTok); FAZ describes nude images of classmates in the plural without a total, so further girls are unquantified.","victimAgeRange":"minor","jurisdiction":"DE","platformType":"other","outcomeType":"internal_action","outcomeStatus":"unknown","primarySourceUrl":"https://www.faz.net/aktuell/gesellschaft/kriminalitaet/wie-paul-buyse-einen-13-jaehrigen-enttarnte-der-ki-pornos-verbreitete-201316731.html","primarySourceLabel":"Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 15 October 2026: how a tipster unmasked a schoolboy spreading AI porn","firstPublishedAt":"2026-10-18T03:08:29.934173+00:00","updatedAt":"2026-10-18T03:08:29.934173+00:00","scopeVersion":"facts-v3","tags":["ai_generated_image","non_consensual_intimate_imagery","school","telegram","minors","germany"]},{"id":"2025-shanghai-yangpu-man-used-ai-faked-food-poisoning-medical-records-to-extort-restaurants-convicted","caseFacts":{"claims":[{"id":"c1","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'要求商家赔偿2000元医疗费，否则将投诉和曝光'; '最终转账赔付'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"'店家赔了钱'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s3"}],"assertion":"A customer told a Yangpu barbecue restaurant he had fallen ill after eating there, produced a hospital visit record and invoice, demanded 2,000 yuan in medical costs under threat of complaints and publicity, and the restaurant paid.","causal_attribution":"Police account relayed by Shangguan; the Procuratorate Daily feature gives the same episode briefly. Different reporting chains on the same police case; marked reported because the details (amount, threat) come from the police account."},{"id":"c2","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'材料均系伪造'; '利用AI软件对图片进行篡改，替换姓名、调整日期、伪造金额'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"'从未有过相关就医记录'; '于是用手机AI工具生成了虚假材料'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"}],"assertion":"Police found the man had no hospital record and the materials were forged; police say he confessed to altering images of other people's medical records with AI software, replacing the name, date and amount.","causal_attribution":"The AI use rests on the man's admission as reported by police (Shangguan) and in China Voice's report of the investigation (Xinhua). The tool is not named, and the accounts differ on whether existing record images were altered or materials generated."},{"id":"c3","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'成功敲诈勒索两起，未遂两起，非法获利2500元'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"'去年11月第一次索赔成功后，一个月内他又以同样方式对四家餐厅提出索'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"}],"assertion":"Police say he succeeded twice and failed twice, obtaining 2,500 yuan; Xinhua reports that after a first successful claim in November of the previous year he made similar claims against four more restaurants within a month.","causal_attribution":"Counts come from the police account (Shangguan) and the China Voice report; they are not reconciled (two plus two versus one plus four), so the record keeps both."},{"id":"c4","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'上海市杨浦区人民法院审理认定'; '判处拘役四个月、缓刑四个月，并处罚金2000元'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"},{"locator":"'利用AI技术伪造就医材料、恶意投诉、敲诈勒索商家的案件依法提起公诉'; '法院审理后以敲诈勒索罪判处'; '利用AI软件生成急性肠胃炎诊断证明和逼真的呕吐物照片'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s3"}],"assertion":"The Yangpu District People's Procuratorate prosecuted him in June 2026, and the Yangpu District People's Court convicted him of extortion and sentenced him to four months' criminal detention, suspended for four months, and a 2,000 yuan fine; the Procuratorate Daily says he used AI software to generate gastroenteritis diagnosis certificates and vomit photos.","causal_attribution":"Two reporting chains give the same sentence; both relay the court outcome and the judgment itself was not read, so the claim is reported."}],"effects":[{"label":"restaurants paid compensation demanded with AI-forged medical records (police: 2,500 yuan from two successful claims)","claim_id":"c1","direction":"negative"}],"sources":[{"id":"s1","url":"https://www.shobserver.cn/sgh/detail?id=1713109","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"zh","translation_note":"Read in Chinese and translated by the research agent (an AI) on 2026-10-17; no human reviewer inspected the text. Shangguan News report of the Yangpu public security sub-bureau's account, 26 February 2026.","independence_group":"yangpu-police-account-2026-02"},{"id":"s2","url":"https://app.xinhuanet.com/news/article.html?articleId=20260616b5cfed558eda4c739780064335734766","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"zh","translation_note":"Read in Chinese and translated by the research agent (an AI) on 2026-10-17; no human reviewer inspected the text. Xinhua client carry of a China Media Group China Voice report (reporters named in the text), 16 June 2026, drawing on the police investigation and the court judgment.","independence_group":"cmg-china-voice-2026-06"},{"id":"s3","url":"https://www.chinanews.com.cn/fz/2026/10-14/10714250.shtml","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"zh","translation_note":"Read in Chinese and translated by the research agent (an AI) on 2026-10-17; no human reviewer inspected the text. China News Service carry of a Procuratorate Daily feature ('来源：检察日报'), 14 October 2026.","independence_group":"procuratorate-daily-2026-10"}],"version":1,"ai_roles":["others_use"],"contexts":["work","justice"],"unknowns":["The AI tool used, and whether it altered existing record images or generated documents and photos from text.","How many restaurants were targeted and paid: the police account gives two successful and two failed claims, Xinhua a first claim plus four more within a month.","The date of the judgment; the text of the judgment was not read."],"geography":{"basis":"The restaurants are in Yangpu district, Shanghai, and the Yangpu police, procuratorate and court handled the case (Shangguan, Xinhua, Procuratorate Daily).","court_countries":["CN"],"event_countries":["CN"],"affected_person_countries":["CN"]},"publication":{"basis":"Published as a contextual case (made_claim_about): Yangpu police say a man used AI software to forge medical records claiming food poisoning and obtained 2,500 yuan from restaurants, which he admitted; the Yangpu court convicted him of extortion. Three reporting chains (police account, China Voice, Procuratorate Daily).","reviewed_on":"2026-10-17"},"ai_involvement":{"basis":"Yangpu police say the man confessed to altering images of other people's medical records with AI software, changing the name, date and amount and adding a beef food-poisoning note, after the hospital confirmed he had no record (Shangguan). China Voice (Xinhua) says he used an AI tool on his phone to generate the false materials, and the Procuratorate Daily says he used AI software to generate diagnosis certificates and vomit photos and was prosecuted for using AI to forge medical materials. The AI output is the forged documents and photos asserting that the restaurants' food had made him ill (made_claim_about), which the restaurants relied on when they paid. The tool is not named.","status":"supported"},"person_relations":["made_claim_about"]},"name":"Shanghai court convicts a man who, police say, used AI software to fake food-poisoning medical records and extort restaurants into paying compensation","summary":"Police in Yangpu district, Shanghai, say a customer extorted restaurants with medical records he had forged using AI software; Xinhua dates his first successful claim to November 2025. In the police account (Shangguan News, 26 February 2026) he claimed to have fallen ill after eating at a barbecue restaurant, showed a hospital visit record and medical invoice, and demanded 2,000 yuan in medical costs, threatening complaints and publicity; the restaurant paid. Police checked with other diners and the hospital, found he had no hospital record and the materials were forged, and say he confessed to using AI software to alter images of other people's medical records, replacing the name, date and amount. Police say he succeeded twice and failed twice, obtaining 2,500 yuan, and that he also filed complaints to market regulators with the forged material to pressure the restaurants. According to Xinhua's June report and the Procuratorate Daily, the Yangpu District People's Court convicted him of extortion and sentenced him to four months' criminal detention, suspended for four months, and a 2,000 yuan fine.","incidentDate":"2025-11-01","incidentKind":"bounded_series","incidentDatePrecision":"month","exposurePattern":"unknown","reportedDate":"2026-02-26","aiSystem":"AI software on the man's phone that, according to Yangpu police, he used to alter images of other people's medical records (name, date, amount) and, according to later reports, to generate gastroenteritis diagnosis certificates, receipts and vomit photos; the tool is not named","aiProduct":"Unidentified image tool","severity":"low","verificationStatus":"credible","harmCategories":[],"harmOutcomes":["financial_loss"],"harmOutcomeSummary":"According to Yangpu police, restaurants paid compensation demanded with AI-forged medical records: a barbecue restaurant paid 2,000 yuan, and the man obtained 2,500 yuan in total from two successful claims, with two more attempts failing.","frameworkFacets":[],"causationStatus":"established","participantUsersAffectedMin":0,"otherPeopleHarmedMin":1,"affectedCountStatus":"partial","affectedCountEvidence":"Police say two extortions succeeded and two failed. One payer is described: the barbecue restaurant's person in charge, who paid 2,000 yuan (Shangguan). The second paying restaurant's people are not described, so the count is 1 plus an unquantified remainder.","victimAgeRange":"unknown","jurisdiction":"CN","platformType":"other","outcomeType":"criminal_charges","outcomeStatus":"resolved","primarySourceUrl":"https://www.shobserver.cn/sgh/detail?id=1713109","primarySourceLabel":"Shangguan News, 26 February 2026: Yangpu police on a barbecue restaurant that paid 2,000 yuan over forged medical records","firstPublishedAt":"2026-10-17T03:18:51.274802+00:00","updatedAt":"2026-10-17T03:18:51.274802+00:00","scopeVersion":"facts-v3","tags":["fake-medical-records","food-poisoning-claim","extortion","restaurants","criminal-conviction","shanghai","china","made-claim-about"]},{"id":"2025-pennsylvania-man-sentenced-after-court-documents-say-he-made-ai-deepfake-nude-images-of-teenage-neighbor","caseFacts":{"claims":[{"id":"c1","status":"corroborated","evidence":[{"locator":"'was sentenced to state prison Wednesday'; 'pleaded guilty to possessing child pornography in connection with nearly 700 pictures and videos'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"'At an Oct. 14 court appearance, Bucks County Common Pleas Judge'; 'had pleaded guilty earlier this year to three felony child-porn related charges and two misdemeanor theft-related charges'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"}],"assertion":"A Bucks County, Pennsylvania, judge sentenced the man to state prison on 14 October 2026 after guilty pleas to child sexual abuse material and theft charges.","causal_attribution":"Court outcome reported by two reporters from separate newsrooms."},{"id":"c2","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'A forensic download of his electronic devices found AI-generated deepfake nude images of a “known” teenage girl.'; 'The girl's face was placed on the bodies of naked females'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"}],"assertion":"Court documents say a forensic download of his electronic devices found AI-generated deepfake nude images of a teenage girl he knew, made by placing her face on the bodies of other people.","causal_attribution":"Court documents as reported. The AI tool's output is the sexual depiction of the girl."},{"id":"c3","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'used artificial intelligence to create graphic, deepfake pornographic images of his underage neighbor'; 'detectives found the deepfake images he made of his teenage neighbor'; 'a teenage girl he had known for years'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"Prosecutors said that detectives investigating his phone found deepfake images he had made of his teenage neighbor, a girl he had known for years, using artificial intelligence.","causal_attribution":"The prosecution's account at sentencing, as reported by the Inquirer."},{"id":"c4","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'was recorded on a nanny cam going into the girl’s home while she and her parents were on vacation, and stealing a pair of her underwear'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"'was arrested on felony charges in June 2025, a neighbor reported'; 'captured on their home security system entering their house'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"}],"assertion":"The day after his June 2025 arrest he entered the girl's home and stole her underwear, which a home camera recorded.","causal_attribution":"Court documents and affidavit account as reported. The two outlets rely on the same court record, so the claim stays reported."},{"id":"c5","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'dismantled in ways we can’t describe'; 'is struggling in school, on antidepressants, and undergoing therapy as she struggles to deal with the trauma'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"The girl's father told the court that the family's lives had been dismantled, and the Inquirer reports that the girl is struggling in school, taking antidepressants and undergoing therapy for the trauma.","causal_attribution":"The father's statement in court and the Inquirer's account of the girl's condition, as reported. They concern the whole of the man's conduct toward the girl."},{"id":"c6","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'seven- to 10-year sentence'; 'is a sexually violent predator, a legal distinction that requires him to register for the rest of his life with the Pennsylvania State Police'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"'to seven to 12 years in state prison, and one year of probation under a negotiated plea deal'; 'to have no contact with the victim and follow sex offender supervision restrictions'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"},{"locator":"'to seven to 20 years in state prison, and one year of probation under a negotiated plea deal'; 'This story was republished to update length of sentencing and add new information'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s3"}],"assertion":"The judge ruled him a sexually violent predator requiring lifetime registration and ordered no contact with the victim; the reported term is seven to 10 years (Inquirer), or seven to 20 years plus a year of probation in the Courier Times report as updated (seven to 12 years in its first, syndicated version).","causal_attribution":"Sentence terms as reported; the outlets differ on the maximum term, and the Courier Times updated its own figure."},{"id":"c7","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'played a role in his creation of the deepfake images of his neighbor'; 'disputed that theory of the case'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"His lawyer said Adderall abuse lowered his inhibitions and played a role in his creation of the deepfake images; the prosecutor disputed that account.","causal_attribution":"The parties' competing accounts at sentencing."}],"effects":[{"label":"teenage neighbor depicted in AI-generated deepfake nude images","claim_id":"c2","direction":"negative"},{"label":"girl reported to be struggling at school, taking antidepressants and in therapy","claim_id":"c5","direction":"negative"}],"sources":[{"id":"s1","url":"https://www.inquirer.com/crime/stephen-oneill-warminster-child-porn-ai-deepfake-20261014.html","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"Read in English on 2026-10-15 (HTTP 200, full text). The reporter covered the 14 October sentencing hearing and cites the affidavit of probable cause.","independence_group":"inquirer-court-report"},{"id":"s2","url":"https://cumberlink.com/news/state-regional/pennsylvania/article_71f7d961-c182-51d2-a5ef-5f552b61411a.html","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"Read in English on 2026-10-15 (HTTP 200). The page obfuscates the article body with ROT47; the research agent (an AI) decoded it to the plain English text. This is the USA Today Network syndication of the Bucks County Courier Times report, with a separate reporter and the court documents as its source. The Courier Times original (phillyburbs.com) returned HTTP 402.","independence_group":"bucks-county-courier-times-court-report"},{"id":"s3","url":"https://www.phillyburbs.com/story/news/crime/2026/10/14/warminster-deepfake-ai-child-pornography-police-sentence-guilty-bucks-county-underwear/91707434007/","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"Read in English on 2026-10-15 through the eu.phillyburbs.com host (HTTP 200, full text; the www host returned HTTP 402). This is the Bucks County Courier Times original of the report syndicated as s2, in the version republished at 02:35 UTC on 15 October to update the sentence length; same independence group as s2.","independence_group":"bucks-county-courier-times-court-report"}],"version":1,"ai_roles":["others_use"],"contexts":["privacy","relationships","justice"],"unknowns":["Which AI tool was used and how investigators established that the images were AI-generated","When the images were made (they were on devices examined in the investigation that began in June 2025, the month of his arrest; incident_date records that month)","How many images there were and whether they were shared","The exact maximum term: the Inquirer gives 10 years, and the Courier Times gave 12 years before updating its report to 20 years"],"geography":{"basis":"Court: Bucks County Court of Common Pleas, Pennsylvania, United States. The reports do not say where the images were made, and the girl's location rests only on residence, so the event and affected-person countries are left unknown.","court_countries":["US"],"event_countries":[],"affected_person_countries":[]},"publication":{"basis":"Published as a reported case from two separate newsroom reports of the same court record. Court documents and prosecutors say the man used an AI tool to make deepfake nude images of a teenage neighbor, and a judge sentenced him to state prison after guilty pleas. The images themselves are the abuse of the girl depicted, and her father described her distress in court. Neither the man nor the girl is named here.","reviewed_on":"2026-10-15"},"ai_involvement":{"basis":"The Bucks County Courier Times reports that, according to court documents, a forensic download of the man's devices found AI-generated deepfake nude images of a teenage girl he knew, made by placing her face on the bodies of other people. The Inquirer reports prosecutors saying that detectives found deepfake images he had made of his teenage neighbor using artificial intelligence. The tool's output is the sexual depiction of the girl (depicted_or_impersonated). Her father described the family's distress in court, in relation to the man's conduct as a whole. Neither report names the tool or states the technical basis for the AI finding.","status":"reported"},"person_relations":["depicted_or_impersonated"]},"name":"Pennsylvania man sentenced to prison in a case where prosecutors and court documents say he made AI deepfake nude images of a teenage neighbor","summary":"A Bucks County, Pennsylvania, judge sentenced a man to state prison on 14 October 2026 after he pleaded guilty to child sexual abuse material and theft charges. According to court documents and prosecutors, detectives who began investigating him in June 2025 found AI-generated deepfake nude images of a teenage girl he knew, a neighbor, on his devices; her face had been placed on other bodies. The day after the arrest he was recorded entering her family's home and stealing her underwear. Her father described the family's distress in court, and the Inquirer reports that she is struggling at school, taking antidepressants and in therapy. The Philadelphia Inquirer reports a sentence of seven to 10 years. The Bucks County Courier Times gave seven to 12 years in its first report and seven to 20 years after republishing it to update the sentence length. Neither report names the AI tool.","incidentDate":"2025-06-01","incidentKind":"single_event","incidentDatePrecision":"month","exposurePattern":"unknown","reportedDate":"2026-10-14","aiSystem":"An unidentified AI tool used, according to court documents and prosecutors, to make deepfake nude images of a teenage girl by placing her face on other bodies","aiProduct":"Unidentified image tool","severity":"high","verificationStatus":"credible","harmCategories":[],"harmOutcomes":["exploitation_or_abuse","psychological_distress"],"harmOutcomeSummary":"According to court documents and prosecutors, a man made AI deepfake nude images of a teenage neighbor. Her father described the family's distress in court, and she is reported to be struggling at school, taking antidepressants and in therapy.","frameworkFacets":[],"causationStatus":"supported","participantUsersAffectedMin":0,"otherPeopleHarmedMin":1,"affectedCountStatus":"partial","affectedCountEvidence":"One teenage girl is depicted in the AI-generated images (claims c2 and c3), so one person is counted. Her father described harm to the whole family, which is not counted separately because his statement covers all of the man's conduct, including the theft. Children in the man's non-AI abuse material are not counted.","victimAgeRange":"minor","jurisdiction":"US","platformType":"other","outcomeType":"criminal_charges","outcomeStatus":"resolved","primarySourceUrl":"https://cumberlink.com/news/state-regional/pennsylvania/article_71f7d961-c182-51d2-a5ef-5f552b61411a.html","primarySourceLabel":"Bucks County Courier Times via The Sentinel (USA Today Network), 14 October 2026: Bucks County man sentenced in child sexual abuse material and theft case","firstPublishedAt":"2026-10-15T02:59:39.067803+00:00","updatedAt":"2026-10-15T03:10:27.808032+00:00","scopeVersion":"facts-v3","tags":["ai-generated-nude-images","deepfake","minors","criminal-sentence","pennsylvania","depicted-or-impersonated"]},{"id":"2025-ontario-lawyer-chatgpt-factum-invented-cases-contempt-referral-licence-suspension","caseFacts":{"claims":[{"id":"c1","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'On May 1, the applicant’s counsel presented a motion seeking relief in this application. During oral submissions, she delivered a factum and cited cases to support the applicant’s arguments.'; 'The judge asked the lawyer if AI like ChatGPT supported the preparation of the factum. She said she would have to ask her clerk.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"'After the hearing, the judge again reviewed the factum and found two more incorrect citations — one to a non-existent case and another to a case that stood for the opposite proposition than that for which it had been cited.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"},{"locator":"'When Justice Myers confronted her in open court about whether she had used ChatGPT, she categorically denied it, stating, “I did not.”'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s4"},{"locator":"'whether she had used ChatGPT to write her factum'; 'said she had not.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s7"}],"assertion":"At a motion hearing on 1 May 2025 in an Ontario Superior Court of Justice estate and family-law application, the applicant’s lawyer relied in writing and orally on a factum citing cases that the judge could not find or that did not support the propositions cited; asked whether AI such as ChatGPT had been used, the lawyer said, according to Canadian Lawyer and LawSites, that she would have to ask her clerk, while Law360 Canada and the tribunal reasons as reported by Law Times say she denied using ChatGPT.","causal_attribution":"Account of the court’s first endorsement (2025 ONSC 2766) as relayed by two legal-press outlets, with the lawyer’s answer in court given differently by Law360 Canada and by the tribunal reasons as reported by Law Times; the endorsement itself was not read."},{"id":"c2","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'factum may have been created by AI and that before filing the factum and relying on it in court, she might not have checked to make sure the cases were real'; 'the judge ordered the attorney to show cause why she should not be cited for contempt.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"},{"locator":"'counsel was ordered to return for a show cause hearing to argue why she should not be cited for contempt of court'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s3"}],"assertion":"The judge found that the factum appeared to have been created by AI and not checked, and ordered the lawyer to show cause why she should not be cited for contempt of court.","causal_attribution":"The court’s own statement, as quoted by LawSites and summarised by Cassels."},{"id":"c3","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'At an informal scheduling conference on May 16, 2025, counsel was forthright in admitting her error and provided an explanation.'; 'In a written decision released on May 20, 2025, the Court found it unnecessary to continue with contempt proceedings'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s3"},{"locator":"'explaining that her staff had used ChatGPT to prepare the factum without her knowledge. She apologized for the mistake and promised to complete at least six hours of continuing professional education in legal ethics and technology.'; 'suffered a public shaming near the end of an unblemished career,'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s7"}],"assertion":"After telling the court that her staff had used ChatGPT to prepare the factum without her knowledge, apologising and undertaking continuing professional education, the lawyer had the show-cause order withdrawn in a decision released on 20 May 2025, which noted that she had suffered a public shaming near the end of an unblemished career.","causal_attribution":"The court’s second decision (2025 ONSC 2965) as summarised by Cassels and recited in the tribunal reasons reported by Law Times."},{"id":"c4","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'admitting the truth: there was no student.'; 'The new disclosure raises issues of deception of the court in a contempt of court proceeding. The procedural context and the quality of the acts are very different.'; 'the court appointed amicus curiae Dean Embry to ensure'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s4"},{"locator":"'revealing that she alone prepared the AI-assisted factum, reversing her prior claim that others were involved. The court treated this as a fresh act of potential contempt and referred the matter to the Attorney General.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s5"}],"assertion":"On 30 September 2025 the lawyer wrote to the court that she alone had prepared the factum using ChatGPT and that her earlier account blaming staff was untrue; on 4 December 2025 the court referred the matter to the Attorney General of Ontario for criminal contempt proceedings and appointed an amicus curiae.","causal_attribution":"The court’s third decision (2025 ONSC 6785) as described by Law360 Canada and WeirFoulds; both relay the same decision."},{"id":"c5","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'will have her license to practise law suspended for six months starting July 17. The tribunal'; 'to pay $10,000 to the Law Society of Ontario'; 'containing only non-existent or irrelevant case law generated by an artificial intelligence tool” and later lying to the court about not using the tool.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s6"}],"assertion":"On 16 July 2026 the Law Society Tribunal suspended the lawyer’s licence for six months from 17 July and ordered her to pay $10,000 to the Law Society of Ontario, finding that she relied on a factum containing only non-existent or irrelevant case law generated by an AI tool and later lied to the court about not using the tool.","causal_attribution":"The tribunal’s order as reported by Law Times; the order itself was not read."},{"id":"c6","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'the lawyer failed to serve her client in a family law matter by using ChatGPT to prepare a factum containing AI-hallucinated case citations and arguments.'; 'Later, she admitted that she had prepared the factum herself and did not know hallucinations existed until Myers confronted her about her submissions.'; 'we are extremely troubled by the lawyer’s subsequent repeated lies to the court and to the law society'; 'had little to no prior experience with ChatGPT'; 'That case remains ongoing.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s7"}],"assertion":"The tribunal’s reasons, as reported, say the lawyer failed to serve her client by using ChatGPT to prepare a factum containing hallucinated citations and arguments, that she had prepared the factum herself with little or no prior experience of ChatGPT, that her repeated lies to the court and the Law Society troubled the tribunal more than the reliance, and that the criminal contempt case remained ongoing.","causal_attribution":"The tribunal’s reasons as reported by Law Times; the reasons themselves were not read."}],"effects":[{"label":"show-cause order for contempt, referral for criminal contempt and a six-month licence suspension after relying on ChatGPT-generated nonexistent case law","claim_id":"c5","direction":"negative"}],"sources":[{"id":"s1","url":"https://www.canadianlawyermag.com/practice-areas/family/superior-court-says-family-law-case-factum-may-have-fake-legal-citations-due-to-ai-hallucinations/392433","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"Read in full in English by the research agent (an AI) on 2026-10-12; no translation was involved and no human reviewer read it. Canadian Lawyer, 13 May 2025, reporting the first endorsement (2025 ONSC 2766); HTTP 200. The endorsement itself (CanLII) returned 403 live and from the Internet Archive.","independence_group":"ontario-superior-court-endorsements-2025"},{"id":"s2","url":"https://www.lawnext.com/2025/05/ai-hallucinations-strike-again-two-more-cases-where-lawyers-face-judicial-wrath-for-fake-citations.html","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"Read in full in English by the research agent (an AI) on 2026-10-12; no translation was involved and no human reviewer read it. LawSites (LawNext), 14 May 2025, summarising the same endorsement; HTTP 200.","independence_group":"ontario-superior-court-endorsements-2025"},{"id":"s3","url":"https://cassels.com/insights/fantasies-in-the-footnotes-ontario-court-rebukes-counsel-for-fake-and-misleading-ai-generated-case-citations/","kind":"legal_commentary","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"Read in full in English by the research agent (an AI) on 2026-10-12; no translation was involved and no human reviewer read it. Cassels law-firm commentary, 23 May 2025, summarising 2025 ONSC 2766 and 2025 ONSC 2965; HTTP 200.","independence_group":"ontario-superior-court-endorsements-2025"},{"id":"s4","url":"https://www.law360.ca/ca/articles/2419185","kind":"legal_commentary","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"Read in full in English by the research agent (an AI) on 2026-10-12; no translation was involved and no human reviewer read it. Law360 Canada analysis, 8 Dec 2025, describing 2025 ONSC 6785 and quoting it; HTTP 200 (full text served).","independence_group":"ontario-superior-court-endorsements-2025"},{"id":"s5","url":"https://www.weirfoulds.com/pdf-article?id=36828","kind":"legal_commentary","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"Read in full in English by the research agent (an AI) on 2026-10-12; no translation was involved and no human reviewer read it. WeirFoulds law-firm article PDF, 23 Dec 2025, on 2025 ONSC 6785; HTTP 200, text extracted with pdftotext.","independence_group":"ontario-superior-court-endorsements-2025"},{"id":"s6","url":"https://www.lawtimesnews.com/resources/professional-regulation/law-society-tribunal-temporarily-suspends-lawyers-license-after-finding-she-lied-about-chatgpt-use/393450","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"Read in full in English by the research agent (an AI) on 2026-10-12; no translation was involved and no human reviewer read it. Law Times, 16 Jul 2026, on the Law Society Tribunal order; HTTP 200.","independence_group":"law-society-tribunal-order-and-reasons-2026"},{"id":"s7","url":"https://www.lawtimesnews.com/resources/professional-regulation/out-of-character-tribunal-explains-six-month-suspension-of-lawyer-who-lied-about-chatgpt-use/393453","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"Read in full in English by the research agent (an AI) on 2026-10-12; no translation was involved and no human reviewer read it. Law Times, 21 Jul 2026, on the tribunal reasons; HTTP 200. The tribunal order and reasons themselves were not read.","independence_group":"law-society-tribunal-order-and-reasons-2026"}],"version":1,"ai_roles":["own_use"],"contexts":["justice","work"],"unknowns":["The outcome of the criminal contempt proceeding referred to the Attorney General; the latest source read (21 July 2026) says it remained ongoing.","Whether the client suffered any concrete consequence in the estate application; the tribunal found the lawyer failed to serve her client but no source read describes an effect on the case.","Which ChatGPT version was used and what prompts produced the citations.","The court endorsements and the tribunal order and reasons were not read directly (CanLII returned 403); all claims rest on legal-press and law-firm accounts of them."],"geography":{"basis":"The factum was filed and argued at a hearing of the Ontario Superior Court of Justice, and the lawyer is described as a Toronto lawyer licensed by the Law Society of Ontario, whose tribunal suspended her.","court_countries":["CA"],"event_countries":["CA"],"affected_person_countries":["CA"]},"publication":{"basis":"Legal-press and law-firm accounts of three Ontario Superior Court decisions and a Law Society Tribunal order describe a lawyer who relied on ChatGPT-generated nonexistent case law in a factum, was ordered to show cause for contempt, later admitted she alone had used ChatGPT and had misled the court, was referred for criminal contempt and was suspended for six months.","reviewed_on":"2026-10-12"},"ai_involvement":{"basis":"The lawyer told the court in September 2025 that she alone prepared the factum using ChatGPT, and the Law Society Tribunal, as reported by Law Times, found that she relied on a factum containing only non-existent or irrelevant case law generated by an AI tool and that she used ChatGPT to prepare it. ChatGPT’s output (citations to cases that do not exist or do not support the propositions) reached the lawyer, who filed it and relied on it orally at the 1 May 2025 hearing; the court’s contempt proceedings and the tribunal’s suspension followed from that reliance and from her later false account of it. The tribunal’s main concern was her dishonesty, which is a separate act by the lawyer.","status":"reported"},"person_relations":["communicated_with"]},"name":"Ontario: lawyer who relied on ChatGPT-invented case law in a factum was referred for criminal contempt and suspended for six months, legal press reports","summary":"An Ontario lawyer relied, at a 1 May 2025 Superior Court hearing in an estate and family-law matter, on a factum citing cases that do not exist or do not support the propositions cited. The judge ordered her to show cause why she should not be cited for contempt, then withdrew the order on 20 May 2025 after she said her staff had used ChatGPT without her knowledge. On 30 September 2025 she told the court that she alone had prepared the factum with ChatGPT and that her earlier account was untrue; the court referred the matter to Ontario’s Attorney General for criminal contempt proceedings in December 2025. In July 2026 the Law Society Tribunal suspended her licence for six months, finding she relied on AI-generated non-existent case law and lied about it. The account comes from legal-press and law-firm reports of the decisions; the criminal contempt case was still ongoing at the last report read.","incidentDate":"2025-05-01","incidentKind":"single_event","incidentDatePrecision":"day","exposurePattern":"single_interaction","reportedDate":"2025-05-13","aiSystem":"ChatGPT, which the lawyer admitted using to prepare the factum and which the Law Society Tribunal found generated the non-existent or irrelevant case law","aiProduct":"ChatGPT","severity":"medium","verificationStatus":"credible","harmCategories":[],"harmOutcomes":["professional_harm","legal_harm","reputational_harm"],"harmOutcomeSummary":"According to legal-press reports of the court and tribunal decisions, the lawyer faced a contempt show-cause order and a referral for criminal contempt, and the Law Society Tribunal suspended her licence for six months and ordered her to pay $10,000 to the Law Society of Ontario; the court noted she had suffered a public shaming near the end of an unblemished career.","frameworkFacets":[],"causationStatus":"supported","participantUsersAffectedMin":1,"otherPeopleHarmedMin":0,"affectedCountStatus":"exact","affectedCountEvidence":"One person, the lawyer who used ChatGPT, is reported to have suffered the contempt proceedings and the suspension. The tribunal found she failed to serve her client, but no source read describes a concrete consequence for the client, who is not counted.","victimAgeRange":"adult","jurisdiction":"CA","platformType":"other","outcomeType":"regulatory_action","outcomeStatus":"ongoing","primarySourceUrl":"https://www.lawtimesnews.com/resources/professional-regulation/out-of-character-tribunal-explains-six-month-suspension-of-lawyer-who-lied-about-chatgpt-use/393453","primarySourceLabel":"Law Times, 21 Jul 2026: tribunal explains six-month suspension of lawyer who lied about ChatGPT use","firstPublishedAt":"2026-10-12T03:13:48.661937+00:00","updatedAt":"2026-10-12T03:13:48.661937+00:00","scopeVersion":"facts-v3","tags":["hallucinated_citations","courts","lawyer_sanction","contempt_of_court","professional_discipline","canada","ontario"]},{"id":"2025-rohtak-district-minor-says-ai-made-obscene-images-used-to-coerce-repeated-rape-pocso-case","caseFacts":{"claims":[{"id":"c1","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'रोहतक के एक गांव में 17 साल की नाबालिग लड़की के AI से अश्लील फोटो व वीडियो बनाकर दो युवकों ने कई बार रेप किया'; 'जिस दौरान ही उसके फोटो आरोपियों ने ले लिए थे। इसके बाद दोनों आरोपियों ने उसके AI से अश्लील फोटो व वीडियो बनाकर सोशल मीडिया पर डालने की धमकी देते हुए शारीरिक संबंध बनाए'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"'इसी दौरान उन्होंने चुपके से लड़की की तस्वीरें ले लीं। आरोप है कि बाद में एआई टूल का इस्तेमाल कर उन तस्वीरों से अश्लील और आपत्तिजनक फोटो-वीडियो बना लिए गए'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"}],"assertion":"The complainant, a 17-year-old from a village in Rohtak district, told police that two men who delivered building material to her home photographed her there, made obscene photographs and videos of her with AI, and forced her into sexual acts by threatening to post the material on social media.","causal_attribution":"The complainant's account as relayed by the two outlets; the police statement quoted does not mention AI, and the images were not examined by any quoted official."},{"id":"c2","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'पीड़िता ने बताया कि दिसंबर 2025 में पहली बार आरोपी का इंस्टाग्राम पर मैसेज आया और घर के बाहर बुलाया। उसके अश्लील फोटो वायरल करने की धमकी दी'; 'पीड़िता ने बताया कि 5 अक्टूबर को वह अपने चाचा के पास रह रही थी'; 'साथ ही किसी को बताने पर जान से मारने की धमकी भी दी'; 'परिजनों ने डायल 112 पर कॉल करके पुलिस को बुलाया'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"'जनवरी 2026 में आरोपियों ने फिर धमकी देकर उसे सुनसान जगह बुलाया'; 'ताजा घटना 5 अक्टूबर 2026 की है'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"}],"assertion":"The complainant described a first assault after an Instagram message in December 2025, further assaults in January and March 2026, and a final assault on 5 October 2026 followed by a death threat, after which she collapsed in a lane near her home and her family called the police.","causal_attribution":"The complainant's chronology as relayed by both outlets; no independent record of the dates was inspected."},{"id":"c3","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'थाना अर्बन एस्टेट पुलिस ने बताया कि एक नाबालिग लड़की ने दो युवकों के खिलाफ जबरन गलत काम करने का आरोप लगाते हुए शिकायत दी है। पुलिस ने मामले में केस दर्ज कर जांच शुरू कर दी है'; 'पीड़िता की काउंसलिंग की गई है'; 'मामले में पोक्सो एक्ट में केस दर्ज हुआ है'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"'पोक्सो एक्ट (POCSO Act) और दुष्कर्म की विभिन्न धाराओं के तहत केस दर्ज कर लिया है'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"}],"assertion":"Police registered a case against the two men under the POCSO Act and rape provisions and began an investigation; the Child Welfare Committee said the complainant has been counselled.","causal_attribution":"Police-station and Child Welfare Committee statements as quoted by the outlets; the first-information report itself was not inspected."}],"effects":[{"label":"repeated rape of a minor coerced with the threat of circulating obscene AI-made images and videos of her, as described in her complaint","claim_id":"c1","direction":"negative"}],"sources":[{"id":"s1","url":"https://www.bhaskar.com/local/haryana/rohtak/news/minor-raped-after-creation-of-obscene-video-using-ai-139284680.html","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"hi","translation_note":"Read in Hindi and translated by the research agent (an AI) on 2026-10-09; no human reviewer inspected the text. Dainik Bhaskar Rohtak local report published 8 October 2026 07:24 IST (updated 09:38 IST); the canonical page and its AMP form both returned HTTP 200 with the article text. Relays the complainant's statement, the police station and the Child Welfare Committee chairman.","independence_group":"rohtak-complainant-account-police-fir-2026-10-08"},{"id":"s2","url":"https://www.jagmarg.com/rohtak-blackmail-gangrape-ai-minor-pocso-case","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"hi","translation_note":"Read in Hindi and translated by the research agent (an AI) on 2026-10-09; no human reviewer inspected the text. Jagmarg News, 8 October 2026, HTTP 200; a Haryana news site carrying the same complainant account, Child Welfare Committee statement and police-station statement as Dainik Bhaskar on the same morning, so it is treated as the same chain and not as independent corroboration.","independence_group":"rohtak-complainant-account-police-fir-2026-10-08"}],"version":1,"ai_roles":["others_use"],"contexts":["everyday_life","justice","privacy"],"unknowns":["Which AI tool was used and whether any official has examined the photographs and videos; the quoted police statement does not mention AI.","Whether the obscene material was shown to the complainant or sent to anyone; the reports describe threats to post it, not circulation.","Whether the accused have been arrested or have responded; neither report quotes them.","The exact date the case was registered (the reports of 8 October 2026 say it has been registered) and the sections applied beyond the POCSO Act and rape provisions."],"geography":{"basis":"Both reports place the complainant's village, the accused's office and the police station in Rohtak district, Haryana, India, and the case is registered with Rohtak police. The complainant lives in the district. No court step is reported yet.","court_countries":[],"event_countries":["IN"],"affected_person_countries":["IN"]},"publication":{"basis":"Published as a core case on one attributed chain: Dainik Bhaskar and Jagmarg News relay a 17-year-old's police complaint that two men made obscene AI images and videos of her and used the threat of posting them to coerce repeated rape, and quote the police station and the Child Welfare Committee on the registered POCSO case. Every claim is attributed to the complaint or to those statements. The complainant, her village, her family and the accused are not named in the sources or in this record.","reviewed_on":"2026-10-09"},"ai_involvement":{"basis":"In the complainant's account relayed by Dainik Bhaskar and Jagmarg News, the two accused took photographs of the girl during visits to her home and made obscene photographs and videos of her with AI (Jagmarg: using an AI tool to make obscene and objectionable photos and videos from those pictures), then threatened to post that material on social media to force her to meet them, which is how she says the repeated rapes were coerced. The AI-made material depicts her (depicted_or_impersonated) and its threatened circulation is the described means of coercion. The quoted police statement describes the complaint of forced sexual acts without mentioning AI, no official is reported to have examined the images, and the tool is not identified; the account is a complaint under investigation.","status":"reported"},"person_relations":["depicted_or_impersonated"]},"name":"Rohtak district, India: POCSO case registered after a 17-year-old says two men made obscene AI images of her and used them to coerce repeated rape since 2025","summary":"Police in Rohtak district, Haryana, registered a case under the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act and rape provisions, reported on 8 October 2026, after a 17-year-old girl from a village in the district told them that two men who delivered building material to her home had taken photographs of her, made obscene photographs and videos from them with AI, and used the threat of posting the material on social media to force her to meet them and rape her repeatedly, according to Dainik Bhaskar and Jagmarg News (both 8 October 2026). In the complainant's account relayed by the two outlets, the first assault followed an Instagram message in December 2025, further assaults took place in January and March 2026, and the most recent on 5 October 2026, after which she collapsed in a lane near her home and told her family, who called the police. The district Child Welfare Committee said she has been counselled. The police statement quoted by Dainik Bhaskar describes a complaint of forced sexual acts by two men and an investigation, without mentioning AI; the AI claim rests on the complainant's account as relayed by the outlets. No arrest is reported and the accused have not been heard.","incidentDate":"2025-12-01","incidentEndDate":"2026-10-05","incidentKind":"bounded_series","incidentDatePrecision":"month","exposurePattern":"repeated_interactions","reportedDate":"2026-10-08","aiSystem":"AI tool, not identified, which according to the complainant's account relayed by Dainik Bhaskar and Jagmarg News the two accused used to make obscene photographs and videos of her from photographs they had taken of her","aiProduct":"Unidentified image and video tool","severity":"high","verificationStatus":"credible","harmCategories":[],"harmOutcomes":["exploitation_or_abuse","psychological_distress"],"harmOutcomeSummary":"According to the complainant's account relayed by Dainik Bhaskar and Jagmarg News, a 17-year-old was raped repeatedly between December 2025 and 5 October 2026 by two men who threatened to post obscene AI-made photographs and videos of her on social media; the Child Welfare Committee said she has been counselled, and she collapsed in the street after the most recent assault.","frameworkFacets":[],"causationStatus":"alleged","participantUsersAffectedMin":0,"otherPeopleHarmedMin":1,"affectedCountStatus":"exact","affectedCountEvidence":"One person: the complainant, a 17-year-old girl, is the only person the reports describe as depicted and assaulted. 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The accused are not counted.","victimAgeRange":"minor","jurisdiction":"IN","platformType":"other","outcomeType":"criminal_charges","outcomeStatus":"ongoing","primarySourceUrl":"https://www.bhaskar.com/local/haryana/rohtak/news/minor-raped-after-creation-of-obscene-video-using-ai-139284680.html","primarySourceLabel":"Dainik Bhaskar (Rohtak), 8 October 2026: minor raped after blackmail with obscene AI-made photos and videos; accused forced relations in an office and a car","firstPublishedAt":"2026-10-09T03:36:29.225729+00:00","updatedAt":"2026-10-09T03:36:29.225729+00:00","scopeVersion":"facts-v3","tags":["deepfake","non_consensual_intimate_imagery","sextortion","minors","sexual_violence","criminal_charges","india","haryana","depicted-or-impersonated"]},{"id":"2025-texas-student-ai-altered-nude-image-of-classmate-posted-on-snapchat-sheriff-arrest","caseFacts":{"claims":[{"id":"c1","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'admitted to altering the image by using AI and posting it on a \"public story\" on Snapchat and then removing it'; 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KFDM (Sinclair) report of 24 April 2026, updated 26 April, relaying the sheriff's statement; HTTP 200.","independence_group":"county-sheriff-office-statement-2026-04-24"},{"id":"s2","url":"https://www.12newsnow.com/article/news/crime/buna-teen-charged-with-creating-ai-generated-explicit-image-classmate-says-jasper-county-sheriff/502-b13b5b85-11eb-4252-9539-a45adcfa90dc","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"Read in English by the research agent (an AI) on 2026-09-30 (batch 2) and re-read on 2026-10-08 from the saved body; no translation was involved and no human reviewer read the article. 12News (KBMT) report of 24 April 2026 read from the Internet Archive capture of the same day (direct fetch HTTP 403); relays the sheriff's office.","independence_group":"county-sheriff-office-statement-2026-04-24"},{"id":"s3","url":"https://www.ktre.com/2026/04/24/buna-isd-student-accused-production-deep-fake-explicit-media/","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"Read in English by the research agent (an AI) on 2026-09-30 (batch 2) and re-read on 2026-10-08 from the saved body; no translation was involved and no human reviewer read the article. KTRE (Gray) report of 24 April 2026 relaying the sheriff's office; HTTP 200.","independence_group":"county-sheriff-office-statement-2026-04-24"},{"id":"s4","url":"https://www.ktre.com/2026/04/28/jasper-county-officials-warn-ai-dangers-after-first-deepfake-arrest/","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"Read in English by the research agent (an AI) on 2026-09-30 (batch 2) and re-read on 2026-10-08 from the saved body; no translation was involved and no human reviewer read the article. KTRE (Gray) report of 28 April 2026 with the sheriff's interview remarks and a comment from a district attorney not prosecuting the case; HTTP 200.","independence_group":"county-sheriff-office-statement-2026-04-24"}],"version":1,"ai_roles":["others_use"],"contexts":["education","privacy"],"unknowns":["The depicted student's age, and whether the student or the family has described any consequence; the sheriff's words (embarrassing, damage done, innocent young victim) are the only account of harm.","When the altered image was posted on Snapchat; the sheriff's office dated only the alteration (25 November 2025), an investigative conclusion that was not independently confirmed.","Which AI tool was used, and whether anyone beyond the person who took screenshots saw or shared the image.","When the sheriff's office was first notified: KFDM gives two different accounts and 12News matches only one of them, so no notification date is recorded.","The outcome of the charge; the case was reported as in the hands of the court on 28 April 2026 and no hearing is reported."],"geography":{"basis":"The sheriff's office is in East Texas, the school and the students are in the same county, and the student was charged under Texas law (KFDM, 12News, KTRE). The affected student attends the same school. The case is in a Texas court (KTRE, 28 April).","court_countries":["US"],"event_countries":["US"],"affected_person_countries":["US"]},"publication":{"basis":"Published as a core case on one attributed chain: the county sheriff's office, relayed by KFDM, 12News and KTRE, said a 17-year-old student admitted altering a classmate's image with AI to appear nude and posting it on Snapchat, that the alteration was dated to 25 November 2025 by its investigation, and that the student was charged. Every claim is attributed to the sheriff's office. The students, the school, the district, the town and the county are not named because both students are private people and at least one is a minor.","reviewed_on":"2026-10-08"},"ai_involvement":{"basis":"The county sheriff's office, relayed by KFDM, 12News and KTRE, said the 17-year-old admitted altering an image of a classmate by using AI to make the classmate appear nude and posting it on Snapchat, and that its investigation concluded the image was artificially altered on 25 November 2025. The AI-altered sexual image is the harm itself: it depicts the classmate (depicted_or_impersonated) and was seen and screenshotted by at least one person. The tool is not identified, the image was not examined by the research agent, and the only account is the sheriff's office statement; the charge is untested in court.","status":"reported"},"person_relations":["depicted_or_impersonated"]},"name":"Texas: sheriff says a 17-year-old student altered a classmate's image with AI in November 2025 to appear nude and posted it on Snapchat; charged April 2026","summary":"A county sheriff's office in East Texas said on 24 April 2026 that a 17-year-old high-school student had admitted altering an image of a classmate with AI to make the classmate appear nude and posting it on a public Snapchat story, then removing it. The sheriff's office said its investigation concluded the image was altered on 25 November 2025; the posting date is not separately stated. The image stayed on Snapchat for a few minutes and at least one person took screenshots. The school district first received a report of the image on 13 April 2026 and the criminal investigation began on 16 April 2026. The student was arrested on 24 April 2026, charged as an adult with a Class A misdemeanour of unlawful production or distribution of deepfake sexually explicit media, and is presumed innocent. The sheriff said there is a young victim in the case and that the damage was done despite the quick removal. Every account rests on the sheriff's office statements as relayed by three local stations.","incidentDate":"2025-11-25","incidentKind":"single_event","incidentDatePrecision":"day","exposurePattern":"single_interaction","reportedDate":"2026-04-24","aiSystem":"AI tool, not identified, used according to the county sheriff's office to alter a photograph of a student so the student appeared nude","aiProduct":"Unidentified image tool","severity":"medium","verificationStatus":"credible","harmCategories":[],"harmOutcomes":["exploitation_or_abuse"],"harmOutcomeSummary":"According to the county sheriff's office, a student's image was altered with AI to appear nude and posted on a public Snapchat story, where it was screenshotted by at least one person before removal; the sheriff said the damage was done and that there is an innocent young victim. No further consequence for the depicted student is reported.","frameworkFacets":[],"causationStatus":"alleged","participantUsersAffectedMin":0,"otherPeopleHarmedMin":1,"affectedCountStatus":"exact","affectedCountEvidence":"One depicted student: the sheriff's office speaks of an image of another student and of a young victim in this case, and no other depicted person is reported. The accused did not use the tool on the accused's own behalf as a harmed person, so participant_users_affected_min is 0. Students who viewed other, non-criminal pictures are not counted.","victimAgeRange":"unknown","jurisdiction":"US","platformType":"other","outcomeType":"criminal_charges","outcomeStatus":"ongoing","primarySourceUrl":"https://kfdm.com/news/local/breaking-buna-student-arrested-for-deep-fake-sexually-explicit-media","primarySourceLabel":"KFDM, 24 April 2026 (updated 26 April): sheriff's office account of a student's arrest over an AI-altered sexual image posted on Snapchat","firstPublishedAt":"2026-10-08T03:22:06.789017+00:00","updatedAt":"2026-10-08T03:22:06.789017+00:00","scopeVersion":"facts-v3","tags":["deepfake","non_consensual_intimate_imagery","minors","education","snapchat","criminal_charges","united_states","texas"]},{"id":"2025-jakarta-jusuf-hamka-ai-deepfake-detainee-videos-tiktok-trial","caseFacts":{"claims":[{"id":"c1","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'narasi fitnah yang dibuat dengan menggunakan Artificial Inteligen (AI) di media sosial TikTok'; 'sedang menggunakan pakaian tahanan dan dikaitkan dengan tuduhan korupsi, suap, dan gratifikasi'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"'pelaku memakai teknologi Artificial Intelligence (AI) untuk melakukan manipulasi visual wajah Jusuf Hamka dan putrinya'; 'menyebarkannya melalui akun TikTok'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"},{"locator":"'Menyebarkan narasi suap konsesi Tol Cawang-Pluit senilai lebih dari Rp1 triliun'; 'Memasang poster rekayasa yang mencalonkan Jusuf Hamka sebagai presiden 2029'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s5"},{"locator":"'seolah memakai baju tahanan kejaksaan karena dituduh melakukan suap, gratifikasi untuk konsesi tol Cawang-Pluit'; 'pelaku mengedit foto'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s9"}],"assertion":"Videos on TikTok showed Jusuf Hamka and his daughter as if wearing detainee uniforms, tied to narratives of corruption, bribery and gratification that his lawyers call false over the Cawang-Pluit toll concession; his lawyers say the faces were composited with AI into staged scenes (VIVA) and that photos were edited to show them in prosecutors' detainee clothing (ANTARA, 4 December 2025), and other content included a 'toll mafia' label and a fabricated 2029 presidential poster.","causal_attribution":"Hamka's lawyers and the prosecution case as reported; the videos were not inspected."},{"id":"c2","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'Laporan ini teregister di Polda Metro dengan nomor STTLP/B/7474/X/2025/SPKT/Polda Metro Jaya tertanggal 18 Oktober 2025'; 'Pada 24 November 2025, penyidik secara resmi meningkatkan status perkara ke tahap penyidikan usai ditemukan bukti'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"},{"locator":"'ditangkap penyidik Unit 2 Subdit 2 Direktorat Siber Polda Metro Jaya pada Kamis (27/11) usai dilaporkan pada 18 Oktober 2025'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"'pada 27 November 2025, penyidik Unit 2 Subdit 2 Direktorat Siber Polda Metro Jaya menangkap salah seorang pemilik akun Tiktok'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s3"}],"assertion":"Hamka reported the content to Polda Metro Jaya on 18 October 2025; the case was raised to investigation on 24 November and the suspected maker and spreader was arrested by the cyber directorate on 27 November 2025.","causal_attribution":"Reported through Hamka's lawyers; VIVA's second page quotes the cyber directorate's deputy director confirming one arrest, without a date."},{"id":"c3","status":"corroborated","evidence":[{"locator":"'menghadiri sidang dakwaan dugaan hoaks dan manipulasi informasi elektronik konten deepfake di Pengadilan Negeri (PN) Jakarta Pusat pada Selasa (15/9/2026)'; 'kubu terdakwa melalui kuasa hukumnya mengaku bakal menempuh upaya eksepsi'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s4"},{"locator":"'didakwa melanggar Pasal 35 juncto Pasal 51 ayat (1) UU ITE dengan ancaman hukuman maksimal 12 tahun penjara'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s5"}],"assertion":"The trial opened at the Central Jakarta District Court on 15 September 2026 with the reading of an indictment under Article 35 jo 51(1) of the ITE Law (maximum 12 years); the defence said it would file an exception.","causal_attribution":"Court reporting by tvOneNews and Poskota, with different content from the same hearing."},{"id":"c4","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'narasi yang termuat dalam konten tersebut dinilainya tidak benar dan berpotensi merusak reputasinya'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s4"},{"locator":"'penyebaran ini menimbulkan dampak psikologis, reputasional, serta kerugian moril'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"}],"assertion":"Hamka said the content disturbed him, that its narratives were untrue and could damage his reputation, and that the campaign was systematic; his lawyer said the spread caused psychological, reputational and moral harm.","causal_attribution":"Hamka's own statements and his lawyer's; no independent assessment of harm."},{"id":"c5","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'terdakwa mengaku mendapat imbalan sebesar Rp500.000 untuk setiap konten yang dibuat atas perintah pihak tertentu'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s5"},{"locator":"'kan dia dikasih duit Rp500.000 setiap konten'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s4"},{"locator":"'pernyataan mengenai pembayaran tersebut merupakan klaim Jusuf yang masih menjadi bagian dari perkara'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s6"}],"assertion":"Hamka and his lawyers say the defendant admitted during the police investigation that he made the content on others' orders for Rp500,000 per item; tvOneNews notes this payment is Hamka's claim within a contested case.","causal_attribution":"Claim of the complainant's side; the alleged admission was not inspected."},{"id":"c6","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'Tidak ada ruang untuk restorative justice kecuali dia mau bicara dengan tegas di pengadilan, siapa yang menyuruh melakukan tindak pidana ini dan juga yang membayar'; 'surat dakwaan jaksa dinilai tidak cermat dan belum menjelaskan secara jelas perbuatan pidana yang didakwakan kepada kliennya'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s6"},{"locator":"'majelis hakim sempat menanyakan kemungkinan penyelesaian perkara melalui mekanisme restorative justice'; 'membantah argumentasi yang disampaikan pihak Jusuf Hamka'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s8"},{"locator":"'secara tegas menutup pintu penyelesaian secara restorative justice (RJ)'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s7"}],"assertion":"At the 29 September 2026 hearing the judges asked about restorative justice; Hamka's lawyer said there was no room for it unless the defendant named who ordered and paid; the defendant's lawyer said the content related to his anti-corruption committee role and that the indictment was unclear.","causal_attribution":"Three outlets' reports of the same hearing; tvOneNews and TVRI follow one shared text."},{"id":"c7","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'dinyatakan lengkap atau P21'; 'penyidik menyerahkan tersangka beserta barang bukti kepada penuntut umum pada Kejaksaan Negeri Jakarta Pusat'; 'Pasal 433 Ayat 2 Undang-Undang Nomor 1 Tahun 2023 tentang KUHP juncto Pasal 441 Ayat 1'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s3"}],"assertion":"Hamka's lawyer said the case file had been declared complete (P21) and the suspect and evidence handed to Central Jakarta prosecutors, under alternative counts including Article 32(1) jo 48(1) ITE and Articles 433(2) jo 441(1) of the 2023 Criminal Code (reported 12 August 2026).","causal_attribution":"The lawyer's statement via Akurat; the P21 date is not given."}],"effects":[{"label":"AI-manipulated videos depicting him and his daughter as detainees with corruption allegations he denies spread on TikTok","claim_id":"c1","direction":"negative"}],"sources":[{"id":"s1","url":"https://www.antaranews.com/berita/5285803/kuasa-hukum-sebut-konten-hoaks-jusuf-hamka-diduga-dibuat-terorganisir","kind":"wire_report","access":"read","language":"id","translation_note":"Read live in Indonesian on 2026-09-30 (ANTARA, 3 December 2025): the lawyers' statement, the arrest date and the police report number. Researcher translation.","independence_group":"hamka-legal-team-statements"},{"id":"s2","url":"https://www.viva.co.id/berita/nasional/1865501-geger-jusuf-hamka-difitnah-pakai-baju-tahanan-pelaku-deepfake-diciduk-polisi","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"id","translation_note":"Read live in Indonesian on 2026-09-30 (VIVA, 3 December 2025, pages 1 and 2; page 2 saved by the verifier as bodies/verify-v3-viva-p2.txt): lawyer Mohammad Anwar on the AI manipulation, the report, the investigation stage and the arrest; page 2 carries Anwar's full statement and quotes the Polda Metro Jaya cyber directorate's deputy director confirming one arrest. Researcher translation.","independence_group":"hamka-legal-team-statements"},{"id":"s3","url":"https://www.akurat.co/hukum/881600/kasus-deepfake-jusuf-hamka-dinyatakan-lengkap-tersangka-dan-barang-bukti-dilimpahkan-ke-jaksa","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"id","translation_note":"Read live in Indonesian on 2026-09-30 (Akurat.co, 12 August 2026): P21, handover to Central Jakarta prosecutors and the counts, per lawyer Sogi Bagaskara. Researcher translation.","independence_group":"hamka-legal-team-statements"},{"id":"s4","url":"https://www.tvonenews.com/berita/467280-sidang-dakwaan-konten-hoaks-jusuf-hamka-buka-peluang-jalur-damai","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"id","translation_note":"Read live in Indonesian on 2026-09-30 (tvOneNews, 15 September 2026): indictment hearing, Hamka's remarks to reporters. Researcher translation.","independence_group":"tvonenews-court-reporting"},{"id":"s5","url":"https://www.poskota.co.id/2026/09/15/jusuf-hamka-hadiri-sidang-kasus-deepfake-ai-desak-polisi-bongkar-aktor-intelektual","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"id","translation_note":"Read live in Indonesian on 2026-09-30 (Poskota, 15 September 2026): the counts, the listed content and the lawyer's account of the police admission. Researcher translation.","independence_group":"poskota-court-reporting"},{"id":"s6","url":"https://www.tvonenews.com/berita/470241-sidang-lanjutan-konten-hoaks-kubu-jusuf-hamka-tolak-permintaan-restorative-justice","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"id","translation_note":"Read live in Indonesian on 2026-09-30 (tvOneNews, 29 September 2026): the restorative-justice question, both sides' lawyers. Researcher translation.","independence_group":"hearing-2026-09-29-shared-text"},{"id":"s7","url":"https://www.poskota.co.id/2026/09/29/tolak-restorative-justice-jusuf-hamka-desak-pembuat-deepfake-buka-identitas-aktor-intelektual","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"id","translation_note":"Read live in Indonesian on 2026-09-30 (Poskota, 29 September 2026): refusal of restorative justice. Researcher translation.","independence_group":"poskota-court-reporting"},{"id":"s8","url":"https://hukum.tvrinews.com/berita/tk6hpbu-tolak-restorative-justice-jusuf-hamka-minta-terdakwa-ungkap-pihak-yang-membiayai-konten","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"id","translation_note":"Read live in Indonesian on 2026-09-30 (TVRI News, 29 September 2026): the hearing and the next stage. Researcher translation.","independence_group":"hearing-2026-09-29-shared-text"},{"id":"s9","url":"https://www.antaranews.com/berita/5286403/kuasa-hukum-harap-polisi-ungkap-otak-penyebar-hoaks-jusuf-hamka","kind":"wire_report","access":"read","language":"id","translation_note":"Read live in Indonesian on 2026-09-30 (ANTARA, 4 December 2025): lawyers Anwar and Sogi on the edited photos, the Cawang-Pluit concession narrative and the suspected orderers (initials omitted). Researcher translation.","independence_group":"hamka-legal-team-statements"}],"version":1,"ai_roles":["others_use"],"contexts":["privacy","justice","work"],"unknowns":["When the videos were first posted and how far they spread.","Which tool made them.","Whether anyone besides the defendant has been identified as ordering or paying for the content.","The verdict."],"geography":{"basis":"The report, investigation and arrest were by Polda Metro Jaya (Jakarta) and the trial is at the Central Jakarta District Court (ANTARA; VIVA; tvOneNews); Hamka is an Indonesian businessman appearing at that court. Where the videos were made is not stated beyond the Jakarta police jurisdiction.","court_countries":["ID"],"event_countries":["ID"],"affected_person_countries":["ID"]},"publication":{"basis":"Published under the 2026-09-15 charter as a core case (AI-manipulated videos depicting a named public figure and his daughter as detainees with corruption allegations he denies, now the subject of a criminal trial). The AI description rests on the complainant's lawyers and the prosecution case as reported; court events are reported by several outlets. Hamka and his daughter are public figures; the defendant is not named here.","reviewed_on":"2026-09-30"},"ai_involvement":{"basis":"Hamka's lawyers say the maker used AI to manipulate his and his daughter's faces into staged scenes showing them in detainee uniforms (VIVA; ANTARA), and the prosecution's case as reported at trial describes AI-engineered videos and false narratives made in bulk (Poskota). The videos were not inspected and no tool is named; the defence disputes the case but is not reported to dispute that the content was AI-made.","status":"reported"},"person_relations":["depicted_or_impersonated"]},"name":"Jakarta: AI-manipulated TikTok videos showed toll-road businessman Jusuf Hamka and his daughter in detainee uniforms with bribery and corruption narratives that Hamka denies; a TikTok account holder was arrested in November 2025 and is on trial at the Central Jakarta District Court, where Hamka's side refused restorative justice on 29 September 2026","summary":"Indonesian businessman Mohamad Jusuf Hamka reported to Jakarta police on 18 October 2025 that videos circulating on TikTok showed him and his daughter as if wearing prosecutors' detainee uniforms, tied to narratives of corruption, bribery and gratification over the Cawang-Pluit toll concession, which he denies and his lawyers call false; his lawyers say the faces were composited into staged scenes with AI, and that other content called him a 'toll mafia' and posted a fabricated poster of him running for president in 2029. Polda Metro Jaya's cyber directorate arrested the holder of the TikTok accounts on 27 November 2025; Hamka and his lawyers say the defendant admitted to police that he made the content on others' instructions for Rp500,000 per item; tvOneNews and TVRI note this is Hamka's side's claim within the contested case, and Poskota reports it is being examined at trial. The case file was reported complete (P21) on 12 August 2026 and the trial opened at the Central Jakarta District Court on 15 September 2026 under the Electronic Information and Transactions Law (Article 35 jo 51(1), maximum 12 years) and alternative counts. Hamka told reporters the content disturbed him and could damage his reputation and that the campaign was systematic. At the 29 September 2026 hearing the judges asked about restorative justice; Hamka's lawyer said there was no room for it unless the defendant named who ordered and paid for the content. The defendant's lawyer said the content related to his work as secretary-general of an anti-corruption committee and that the indictment was unclear.","incidentDate":"2025-01-01","incidentKind":"bounded_series","incidentDatePrecision":"year","exposurePattern":"unknown","reportedDate":"2025-12-03","aiSystem":"AI-manipulated ('deepfake') videos and edited photos compositing the faces of Jusuf Hamka and his daughter into scenes showing them in detainee uniforms, posted on TikTok (per his lawyers; tool not identified)","aiProduct":"Unidentified image and video tool","severity":"low","verificationStatus":"credible","harmCategories":[],"harmOutcomes":["reputational_harm","psychological_distress"],"harmOutcomeSummary":"Jusuf Hamka says AI-manipulated videos depicting him and his daughter as detainees with corruption allegations he denies spread on TikTok, disturbed him and threatened his reputation; his lawyers describe psychological, reputational and moral harm (tvOneNews; VIVA; ANTARA).","frameworkFacets":[],"causationStatus":"alleged","participantUsersAffectedMin":0,"otherPeopleHarmedMin":2,"affectedCountStatus":"exact","affectedCountEvidence":"Two depicted people: Jusuf Hamka and his daughter (ANTARA; VIVA; Poskota). Exact 2.","victimAgeRange":"adult","jurisdiction":"ID","platformType":"other","outcomeType":"criminal_charges","outcomeStatus":"ongoing","primarySourceUrl":"https://www.antaranews.com/berita/5285803/kuasa-hukum-sebut-konten-hoaks-jusuf-hamka-diduga-dibuat-terorganisir","primarySourceLabel":"ANTARA News, 3 December 2025: Kuasa hukum sebut konten hoaks Jusuf Hamka diduga dibuat terorganisir","firstPublishedAt":"2026-09-30T04:13:45.955729+00:00","updatedAt":"2026-09-30T04:13:45.955729+00:00","scopeVersion":"facts-v3","tags":["deepfakes","ai-generated-video","tiktok","defamation","disinformation","criminal-trial","uu-ite","indonesia","jakarta","depicted-or-impersonated"]},{"id":"2025-louisiana-student-reported-ai-image-abuse-school-consequences","caseFacts":{"claims":[{"id":"c1","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'uncovered AI-generated nude images of eight female middle school students and two adults, the district and sheriff’s office said in a joint statement.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"'an investigation into AI nude images that were shared among students.'; 'Through the investigation, deputies found that eight students and two adults were victims.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"}],"assertion":"The parish sheriff's office and school district said their investigation found AI-generated nude images of eight female middle-school students and two adults, shared among students.","causal_attribution":"Both outlets relay the same official statement (one origin); no images or investigative records were inspected."},{"id":"c2","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'The girls begged for help, first from a school guidance counselor and then from a sheriff’s deputy assigned to their school.'; 'the images were shared on Snapchat, an app that deletes messages seconds after they’re viewed, and the adults couldn’t find them.'; 'A video from the school bus showed at least a half-dozen students circulating the images'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"Girls asked a school counselor and the school's sheriff's deputy for help, but the images had been shared on Snapchat and the adults could not find them; the superintendent later said a school-bus video showed at least six students circulating the images.","causal_attribution":"AP reporting from the hearing recording and the superintendent's remarks at a school board meeting."},{"id":"c3","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'I went the whole day with getting bullied and getting made fun of about my body'; 'the boy was showing the AI-generated images to a friend.'; 'Fed up, she attacked a boy on the bus, inviting others to join her.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"One of the depicted girls said at her disciplinary hearing that she was bullied about her body all day, and AP reports that she then attacked a boy on the school bus who was showing the images.","causal_attribution":"The girl's hearing testimony and the principal's account as reported by AP."},{"id":"c4","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'for more than 10 weeks and sent to an alternative school'; 'she was assigned to an alternative school as the district moved to expel her for a full semester'; 'Her first day back at school was Nov. 7, although she will remain on probation until Jan. 29.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"The district sent the girl to an alternative school and a disciplinary panel expelled her; after an appeal the school board let her return to campus on 7 November 2025, on probation until 29 January 2026.","causal_attribution":"AP reporting of the hearing and board decisions; no district record was inspected."},{"id":"c5","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'the girl started skipping meals, her father said.'; 'got her into therapy'; 'She just felt like she was victimized multiple times'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"Her father says that at the alternative school she skipped meals and stopped doing her work until he got her into therapy, and that she felt victimised several times over.","causal_attribution":"The father's account to AP."},{"id":"c6","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'The student was charged with 10 counts of unlawful dissemination of images created by artificial intelligence under a new Louisiana state law'; 'A second boy was charged in December with identical charges, the sheriff’s department said.'; 'The girl would face no charges'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"'One male student was charged with ten counts of unlawful dissemination of images created by artificial intelligence.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"}],"assertion":"The sheriff's office charged one boy with 10 counts of unlawful dissemination of images created by artificial intelligence and a second boy with identical charges in December 2025; the girl was not charged.","causal_attribution":"The sheriff's office statements as relayed by AP and WBRZ (one origin); no charging document was inspected and no outcome is reported."},{"id":"c7","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'the school district followed all its protocols for reporting misconduct'; 'He said a “one-sided story” had been presented of the case'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"The superintendent said the district followed all its protocols for reporting misconduct and that a one-sided story had been presented.","causal_attribution":"The superintendent's statement as reported by AP."}],"effects":[{"label":"eight girls and two adults depicted in AI-generated nude images shared among students, according to officials","claim_id":"c1","direction":"negative"},{"label":"a day of bullying about her body, by the girl's account","claim_id":"c3","direction":"negative"},{"label":"expelled and sent to an alternative school before returning on probation","claim_id":"c4","direction":"negative"},{"label":"skipped meals and began therapy, according to her father","claim_id":"c5","direction":"negative"}],"sources":[{"id":"s1","url":"https://apnews.com/article/school-deepfake-nude-ai-cyberbullying-0ead324241cf390e1a7f3378853f23cb","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"Published 22 December 2025. The live page returned 403 and the Internet Archive returned HTTP 500 on 2026-10-15; the full article was re-read from the retained Internet Archive capture of 30 December 2025 saved on 2026-09-30. AP reporting from interviews with the family, a recording of the disciplinary hearing, board meetings, records and official statements.","independence_group":"ap-investigation-dec-2025"},{"id":"s2","url":"https://www.wbrz.com/news/lafourche-parish-sheriff-s-office-shares-update-on-investigation-into-ai-nude-images/","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"Published 13 November 2025; read by curl on 2026-10-15 (HTTP 200). Relays the parish sheriff's office release and initial report.","independence_group":"parish-sheriff-release-nov-2025"}],"version":1,"ai_roles":["others_use"],"contexts":["education","privacy"],"unknowns":["Which apps made the images, who created them and when; the charges concern dissemination.","The outcome of the charges against the two boys.","Whether the accused classmate faced school discipline; the district cited student privacy law.","Whether the family filed the federal lawsuit its lawyer planned."],"geography":{"basis":"AP and WBRZ place the school, the sheriff's investigation and the charges in a Louisiana parish.","court_countries":[],"event_countries":["US"],"affected_person_countries":["US"]},"publication":{"basis":"The investigating sheriff's office and school district described AI-generated nude images depicting ten people, and AP reported one girl's school exclusion and distress from her hearing testimony, school board meetings and her father's interviews. The district's disagreement is recorded. The girl, her family, the school and the town are not named.","reviewed_on":"2026-10-15"},"ai_involvement":{"basis":"The sheriff's office and school district, which investigated, described the images as AI-generated nude images of identifiable students and adults, and the sheriff's office charged two boys under a state law on images created by artificial intelligence. The tool used is not named and no image, device record or charging document was inspected.","status":"reported"},"person_relations":["depicted_or_impersonated"]},"name":"Louisiana family reports bullying and school exclusion after alleged AI sexual-image abuse","summary":"A Louisiana sheriff's office and school district said an investigation found AI-generated nude images of eight middle-school girls and two adults shared among students in August 2025. One girl's family told AP she was bullied all day, attacked a boy showing the images on the school bus, and was expelled and sent to an alternative school before the school board let her return on probation. Two boys were charged under a state law on AI-created images. The district said it followed its protocols.","incidentDate":"2025-08-26","incidentEndDate":"2025-11-07","incidentKind":"bounded_series","incidentDatePrecision":"range","exposurePattern":"unknown","reportedDate":"2025-11-13","aiSystem":"Unidentified AI image tools; the sheriff's office and district describe the images as AI-generated","aiProduct":"Unidentified image tool","severity":"high","verificationStatus":"credible","harmCategories":[],"harmOutcomes":["exploitation_or_abuse","psychological_distress","educational_harm"],"harmOutcomeSummary":"Officials said AI-generated nude images depicted eight middle-school girls and two adults; one girl's family describes a day of bullying, expulsion, weeks at an alternative school and distress that led to therapy.","frameworkFacets":[],"causationStatus":"alleged","participantUsersAffectedMin":0,"otherPeopleHarmedMin":10,"affectedCountStatus":"documented_minimum","affectedCountEvidence":"The sheriff's office and district said the investigation found AI-generated nude images of eight female students and two adults, whom the sheriff's office called victims. Non-consensual sexual depiction is itself the reported harm for all ten; bullying, school exclusion and distress are described for one girl only. Documented minimum because the images were shared on a disappearing-message app and the count is the investigation's finding.","victimAgeRange":"unknown","jurisdiction":"US-LA","platformType":"other","outcomeType":"criminal_charges","outcomeStatus":"pending","primarySourceUrl":"https://apnews.com/article/school-deepfake-nude-ai-cyberbullying-0ead324241cf390e1a7f3378853f23cb","primarySourceLabel":"Associated Press, 22 December 2025","firstPublishedAt":"2026-09-30T01:10:59.922265+00:00","updatedAt":"2026-10-15T02:59:57.785525+00:00","scopeVersion":"facts-v3","tags":["historical-2025","ai-sexual-images","school","minors","louisiana","criminal-charges","depicted-or-impersonated"]},{"id":"2025-ar-esquel-criminal-judgment-annulled-judge-generative-ai-draft","caseFacts":{"claims":[{"id":"c1","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"decidió el miércoles anular de oficio una sentencia dictada el 4 de junio pasado","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"anular de oficio una sentencia porque el juez la delegó en un ChatGPT","relation":"supports","source_id":"s3"},{"locator":"La sentencia anulada había condenado al imputado a dos años y seis meses de prisión efectiva por robo simple","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"}],"assertion":"On 4 June 2025 a criminal judge in Esquel convicted a defendant of simple robbery and sentenced the defendant to two years and six months of effective imprisonment, and the Penal Chamber of Esquel later annulled that judgment.","causal_attribution":"Sources give the annulment as the chamber's response to the judge's AI use."},{"id":"c2","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"Aquí tienes el punto IV reeditado, sin citas y listo para copiar y pegar","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"el magistrado utilizó la IA generativa, ni más ni menos, que en un aspecto central de la resolución en crisis como es la resolución de las nulidades de dos pruebas esenciales en el proceso","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"},{"locator":"el juez de primera instancia incluyó accidentalmente una frase que revela el uso de un asistente de Inteligencia Artificial (IA) generativa","relation":"supports","source_id":"s3"}],"assertion":"The judgment contained the phrase “Aquí tienes el punto IV reeditado, sin citas y listo para copiar y pegar”, which the chamber took to show generative-AI use, including on the rulings on the nullity of two essential pieces of evidence.","causal_attribution":"The chamber's finding, as quoted in the press, connects the phrase to AI use. The full ruling text was not read."},{"id":"c3","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"anular tanto la sentencia como el juicio que la precedió","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"declaración de nulidad de la sentencia y del juicio que la precede, con todo lo que ello significa para los justiciables","relation":"supports","source_id":"s3"},{"locator":"ordenando que el proceso se realice nuevamente con la intervención de otro magistrado","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"el tribunal ordenó reenviar el caso a otro juez penal, prohibiendo al Ministerio Público Fiscal exhibir en el nuevo juicio los videos omitidos en el anterior","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"},{"locator":"A raíz de esto deberá realizarse nuevamente el juicio, con otro juez","relation":"supports","source_id":"s3"}],"assertion":"The chamber annulled the judgment and the preceding trial and ordered a new trial before another judge, and barred the prosecution from showing at the new trial the videos omitted at the first.","causal_attribution":"The annulment is attributed by the chamber to the judge's undisclosed and unsupervised AI use, which the chamber said prevented control of the judge's reasoning."},{"id":"c4","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"remitir las actuaciones al Superior Tribunal de Justicia de Chubut (STJ), que deberá investigar el alcance ético y disciplinario de la conducta","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"pudo haber incumplido los recaudos de confidencialidad exigidos por el Acuerdo Plenario N° 5435 del STJ, al incluir nombres de las partes, testigos y peritos en el texto procesado por el asistente","relation":"supports","source_id":"s3"}],"assertion":"The chamber referred the matter to the Chubut Superior Court of Justice to investigate the judge's conduct and said the judge may have breached that court's confidentiality rules by including the names of parties, witnesses and experts in the text processed by the assistant.","causal_attribution":"The confidentiality point is the chamber's stated possibility and was not established as fact."},{"id":"c5","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"presumiblemente ChatGPT","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"el juez la delegó en un ChatGPT","relation":"supports","source_id":"s3"}],"assertion":"Press coverage identifies the assistant as ChatGPT (La Nación as presumed, Perfil without qualification).","causal_attribution":"The ruling as quoted refers to a generative-AI assistant. The product name comes from the press."}],"effects":[{"label":"Conviction and trial annulled and retrial ordered; the chamber cites serious consequences for the parties","claim_id":"c3","direction":"negative"}],"sources":[{"id":"s1","url":"https://www.lanacion.com.ar/sociedad/el-juez-de-esquel-que-uso-chat-para-redactar-una-sentencia-sera-investigado-nid17102025/","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"es","translation_note":"Full body read in the original Spanish (17 October 2025) by the reviewing agent without a human translator. Reports the appellate ruling; whether the journalist saw the ruling text is not stated.","independence_group":"esquel-camara-ruling"},{"id":"s2","url":"https://documento.errepar.com/actualidad/justicia-anulada-se-invalida-un-fallo-por-el-uso-indebido-de-la-ia-20251016143159365","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"es","translation_note":"Article body is embedded in the page data and was decoded into bodies/gh-4-body.txt (16 October 2025). Read in Spanish without a human translator. It quotes the ruling. The linked full text of the ruling (documento.errepar.com/jurisprudencia/...) is gated and was not read.","independence_group":"esquel-camara-ruling"},{"id":"s3","url":"https://www.perfil.com/noticias/nea/inteligencia-artificial-anulan-sentencia-porque-un-juez-uso-un-chatgpt-y-una-frase-lo-delato.phtml","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"es","translation_note":"Full body read in Spanish (17 October 2025) without a human translator. It relays a statement of the Ministerio Publico Fiscal of Chubut and quotes the ruling.","independence_group":"esquel-camara-ruling"}],"version":1,"ai_roles":["institutional_use"],"contexts":["justice"],"unknowns":["The full text of the ruling was not read (the Errepar copy is gated), so all findings are as reported by three outlets that share the same underlying ruling.","The share of the judgment written by the assistant is unknown. The chamber said the pasted text leaves a gap too wide to tell.","The specific AI product is not established. No chat log was seen.","The annulment date of 15 October 2025 is derived from La Nación's 'el miércoles' (article of 17 October 2025) and the metadata of a gated Errepar ruling page; no cited article states the date.","The outcome of the Superior Court review and the date of the new trial are not reported in the sources read.","The defendant's own view of the annulment and any effect of the delay on the defendant or on other parties to the case is not reported."],"geography":{"basis":"The court is the Penal Chamber of Esquel in Chubut province, and La Nación calls the ground for the annulment unprecedented in Argentine justice. The defendant's residence and where the judge used the assistant are not stated.","court_countries":["AR"],"event_countries":[],"affected_person_countries":[]},"publication":{"basis":"Three Spanish-language outlets report the same appellate ruling, which annulled a criminal judgment and trial after a pasted assistant phrase exposed undisclosed generative-AI use. The chamber's stated consequences for the parties (annulment and a repeated trial) are reported, and the effect on the defendant is not. The outlets share one reporting chain, so claims are attributed.","reviewed_on":"2026-09-29"},"ai_involvement":{"basis":"The appellate chamber, as quoted by three outlets, found a pasted chat phrase in the ruling and concluded that a generative-AI assistant was used. The chamber described delegation of the decision as probable. The product name ChatGPT is stated by one outlet as presumed and by another without qualification.","status":"supported"},"person_relations":["made_decision_about"]},"name":"Argentina: appellate chamber annuls a robbery judgment and trial after the trial judge left a generative-AI chat phrase in the ruling","summary":"On 4 June 2025 a criminal judge in Esquel, Chubut province, convicted a defendant of simple robbery and imposed two years and six months of effective imprisonment. On 15 October 2025 the Penal Chamber of Esquel annulled the judgment and the trial, ordering a new trial before another judge. The chamber found that the ruling contained a pasted phrase from a generative-AI assistant (“Aquí tienes el punto IV reeditado, sin citas y listo para copiar y pegar”), that the AI had been used on the rulings on the nullity of two essential pieces of evidence, and that the judge had not exercised human supervision or recorded the use. Perfil's headline describes the assistant as ChatGPT and La Nación's text as presumably ChatGPT; the quoted ruling and the prosecution office statement refer only to a generative-AI assistant. The chamber referred the judge's conduct to the Chubut Superior Court of Justice for ethical and disciplinary review.","incidentDate":"2025-06-04","incidentEndDate":"2025-10-15","incidentKind":"bounded_series","incidentDatePrecision":"day","exposurePattern":"single_interaction","reportedDate":"2025-10-16","aiSystem":"Generative AI assistant (reported as ChatGPT)","aiProduct":"ChatGPT (reported)","severity":"low","verificationStatus":"credible","harmCategories":[],"harmOutcomes":["legal_harm"],"harmOutcomeSummary":"Per press reports of the appellate ruling, the trial and conviction were annulled because of the judge's undisclosed generative-AI use and the case must be tried again before another judge. The chamber described serious consequences of this for the parties, the public and the State. 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No inspected source reports harm to the defendant specifically, and annulment of a conviction may be favourable to the defendant.","victimAgeRange":"unknown","platformType":"assistant","primarySourceUrl":"https://www.lanacion.com.ar/sociedad/el-juez-de-esquel-que-uso-chat-para-redactar-una-sentencia-sera-investigado-nid17102025/","primarySourceLabel":"La Nación, 'El juez de Esquel que usó Chat para redactar una sentencia será investigado', 17 October 2025","firstPublishedAt":"2026-09-29T12:42:03.091102+00:00","updatedAt":"2026-09-30T01:16:55.894793+00:00","scopeVersion":"facts-v3","tags":["historical-2025"]},{"id":"2025-chatgpt-nonphysical-entities-spouse-domestic-assault-arrest-divorce","caseFacts":{"claims":[{"id":"c1","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"She had an intuition that the AI chatbot might be able to channel communications with her subconscious or a higher plane","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"The guardians are responding right now.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"A woman in a marriage with two young children began using ChatGPT in March 2025 after feeling lonely, asked whether it could channel communications with her subconscious or a higher plane, and ChatGPT replied that the guardians were responding.","causal_attribution":"The account comes from the woman, quoted by the New York Times reporter, and the ChatGPT reply is quoted."},{"id":"c2","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"began spending many hours a day using ChatGPT, communicating with what she felt were nonphysical entities","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"came to see it, not her husband, as her true partner","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"The woman spent many hours a day with ChatGPT communicating with what she felt were nonphysical entities and came to see one of them, not her husband, as her true partner.","causal_attribution":"Reported by the New York Times from the wife and husband; the husband attributes the change to ChatGPT."},{"id":"c3","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"One night, at the end of April","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"they fought over her obsession with ChatGPT and the toll it was taking on the family","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"punching and scratching him, he said, and slamming his hand in a door","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"The police arrested her and charged her with domestic assault. (The case is active.)","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"At the end of April 2025, after a fight over her ChatGPT use, the husband said she punched and scratched him and slammed his hand in a door; police arrested her and charged her with domestic assault, and the case was active at publication.","causal_attribution":"The assault details are the husband's account. The arrest and charge are stated by the article without a cited court record."},{"id":"c4","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"came out a different person","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"are now divorcing.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"The husband said his wife dropped into a hole about three months before the interview and came out a different person, and the couple were divorcing at publication.","causal_attribution":"The husband attributes the change to ChatGPT use; the divorce is reported without independent record."}],"effects":[{"label":"Domestic assault arrest and charge after spouse's escalating ChatGPT immersion","claim_id":"c3","direction":"negative"},{"label":"Marriage ending in divorce","claim_id":"c4","direction":"negative"}],"sources":[{"id":"s1","url":"https://www.business-standard.com/technology/tech-news/ai-chatbots-answers-fuel-conspiracies-alter-beliefs-in-disturbing-ways-125061400247_1.html","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"","independence_group":"nyt-hill-2025-06"}],"version":1,"ai_roles":["own_use"],"contexts":["relationships","everyday_life"],"unknowns":["The only inspected chain is one New York Times article (read through its Business Standard syndication). 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Children are not counted.","victimAgeRange":"adult","platformType":"assistant","primarySourceUrl":"https://www.business-standard.com/technology/tech-news/ai-chatbots-answers-fuel-conspiracies-alter-beliefs-in-disturbing-ways-125061400247_1.html","primarySourceLabel":"Kashmir Hill, New York Times (syndicated by Business Standard), 14 June 2025","firstPublishedAt":"2026-09-29T12:41:36.848857+00:00","updatedAt":"2026-09-30T01:16:58.925084+00:00","scopeVersion":"facts-v3","tags":["historical-2025"]},{"id":"2025-stephens-county-oklahoma-judge-chatgpt-fake-citations-paternity-order","caseFacts":{"claims":[{"id":"c1","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'Wheeler denied a request from one of the parents' attorneys to have the other parent undergo a psychological test—and in his order denying the request, he pointed to multiple previous Oklahoma cases he said backed him up.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"},{"locator":"'The 2025 order in a child paternity case'; 'He came under scrutiny after he reprimanded attorney [the attorney] last November in an order in the paternity case for asking for a psychological evaluation of the child’s father.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"'The issue came to light after a request for a mental evaluation was denied and a subsequent court order was filed.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s3"}],"assertion":"In November 2025, in a child paternity and custody case, Judge Wheeler issued an order denying a request by one parent's attorney for a psychological evaluation of the other parent, citing Oklahoma cases he said supported the decision.","causal_attribution":"Court history as reported by The Oklahoman and KFOR and described by the mother; the order itself was not read."},{"id":"c2","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'The judge told the OSBI he only used ChatGPT for research and created the order himself, DA Jason Hicks wrote. 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The judge's attorney declined to comment."},{"id":"c3","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'The judge issued the reprimand “for stooping to such frivolous trial tactics” and cautioned that future similar filings may be subject to further sanctions.'; '[The attorney] challenged the order at the Oklahoma Supreme Court in February. He told justices that Wheeler based his order on two cases, Cummings v. Cimarron Elevator Co. and Hawkins v. Linhart, that do not exist.'; '[The attorney] dismissed his challenge in March after Wheeler vacated the order. Wheeler is no longer involved in the paternity case.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"'She said her attorney at the time challenged the ruling and began reviewing the legal authorities cited in the order.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s3"}],"assertion":"The order reprimanded the attorney who had asked for a psychological evaluation of the child's father 'for stooping to such frivolous trial tactics' and warned of further sanctions; that attorney challenged it at the Oklahoma Supreme Court in February 2026, saying it relied on two nonexistent cases, and dismissed the challenge in March after Wheeler vacated the order. The mother told News 9 that her attorney at the time challenged the ruling.","causal_attribution":"The Oklahoman's account of the court filings and the mother's account to News 9; the Supreme Court filings were not read."},{"id":"c4","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'[The mother] said learning the citations were allegedly fabricated was alarming because the order involved the custody of a child.'; '“Then it became very concerning to me that somebody would do something like that over a child custody case,” she said.'; '“He then turned around and decided to recuse himself from my case,” she said. “He called my attorney that I had at the time and apologized to him.”'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s3"}],"assertion":"The mother told News 9 that learning the citations were allegedly fabricated was alarming because the order involved the custody of a child, and that the judge later recused himself from her case and apologised to her attorney.","causal_attribution":"The mother's first-person account in a broadcast interview."},{"id":"c5","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'The OSBI investigated the judge at the request of the Oklahoma Council on Judicial Complaints.'; 'The OSBI also looked into allegations “that Judge Wheeler offered to amend the order in exchange for a dismissal of a writ seeking relief from the Oklahoma Supreme Court” and that he “eavesdropped on jury deliberations,” the DA disclosed in the letter.'; 'Prosecutors in the AG’s office “thoroughly reviewed the results of the investigation and determined the evidence does not support a criminal prosecution,” the AG’s press secretary, Leslie Berger, said on Sept. 2.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"'The Criminal Justice Division of the Attorney General’s Office thoroughly reviewed the results of the investigation and determined the evidence does not support a criminal prosecution. The Oklahoma Supreme Court and the Court on the Judiciary possess ultimate jurisdiction over disciplinary actions for allegations of inappropriate behavior by judges regardless of whether the behavior constitutes a violation of a criminal statute.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s3"}],"assertion":"The OSBI investigated the judge at the request of the Council on Judicial Complaints, including allegations that he offered to amend the order in exchange for dismissal of the writ and that he eavesdropped on jury deliberations; the attorney general's office said the evidence did not support criminal prosecution and that judicial discipline rests with the Oklahoma Supreme Court and the Court on the Judiciary.","causal_attribution":"District attorney's letter and attorney general's statement as reported; no disciplinary finding has been made."}],"effects":[{"label":"the mother faced an order denying a psychological-evaluation request, with the judge citing authorities reported to have been generated by ChatGPT","claim_id":"c1","direction":"negative"},{"label":"the attorney who requested the evaluation was reprimanded in the order and sought relief from the Oklahoma Supreme Court before the order was vacated","claim_id":"c3","direction":"negative"},{"label":"the mother describes learning of the fabricated citations in her child custody case as alarming","claim_id":"c4","direction":"negative"}],"sources":[{"id":"s1","url":"https://minnlawyer.com/2026/09/09/oklahoma-judge-ai-fabricated-case-citations/","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"The Oklahoman's report (USA TODAY Network via Reuters Connect) as republished by Minnesota Lawyer; read in full from the Wayback capture of 10 September 2026 because the live page returned 403. Its ChatGPT-admission passages relay the district attorney's letter; its account of the reprimand, the Supreme Court challenge and the vacatur draws on court filings and the attorney. Reinspected in the retained complete English body on 2026-10-06. All sources share the district-attorney-letter chain for AI involvement, so grouped conservatively together; the News 9 maternal interview is separate testimony about her experience, not a second verification of AI use.","independence_group":"wheeler-da-letter"},{"id":"s2","url":"https://www.aol.com/articles/oklahoma-judge-admitted-citing-fake-030000000.html","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"KFOR (Oklahoma City) report syndicated on AOL, read in full on 2026-09-29. Its account of the ChatGPT admission relays the same district attorney letter. Reinspected in the retained complete English body on 2026-10-06. All sources share the district-attorney-letter chain for AI involvement, so grouped conservatively together; the News 9 maternal interview is separate testimony about her experience, not a second verification of AI use.","independence_group":"wheeler-da-letter"},{"id":"s3","url":"https://www.news9.com/oklahoma-city-news/stephens-county-mother-speaks-out-after-judge-accused-of-using-chatgpt-in-custody-case","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"News 9 (Griffin Media) interview with the mother, read in full on 2026-09-29. Its description of the ChatGPT admission also relays the district attorney's letter; the mother's own account is independent of it. Reinspected in the retained complete English body on 2026-10-06. All sources share the district-attorney-letter chain for AI involvement, so grouped conservatively together; the News 9 maternal interview is separate testimony about her experience, not a second verification of AI use.","independence_group":"wheeler-da-letter"},{"id":"s4","url":"https://hoodline.com/2026/09/stephens-county-judge-faces-discipline-over-chatgpt-written-court-order/","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"Hoodline rewrite of the Reuters report, read in full on 2026-09-29. Reuters relays the same district attorney letter. Reinspected in the retained complete English body on 2026-10-06. All sources share the district-attorney-letter chain for AI involvement, so grouped conservatively together; the News 9 maternal interview is separate testimony about her experience, not a second verification of AI use.","independence_group":"wheeler-da-letter"}],"version":1,"ai_roles":["institutional_use"],"contexts":["justice","relationships"],"unknowns":["The text of the order and whether the nonexistent citations were decisive for denying the evaluation and for the reprimand.","Whether any disciplinary proceeding follows from the Council on Judicial Complaints referral.","The current state of the custody case after the vacatur and the judge's departure from it.","The exact day in November 2025 on which the order was issued."],"geography":{"basis":"The Oklahoman, KFOR and News 9 locate the order and proceedings in Stephens County, Oklahoma, and the Oklahoma Supreme Court. These establish the event and court countries as US. News 9 calls the interviewee a Stephens County mother but gives no explicit residence evidence for either counted person, so affected_person_countries is unknown.","court_countries":["US"],"event_countries":["US"],"affected_person_countries":[]},"publication":{"basis":"This reported event connects specific ChatGPT-generated citations to an adverse order issued by a human judge. The Oklahoman and KFOR describe their use in the order, The Oklahoman reports the attorney's reprimand and successful challenge, and News 9 carries the mother's account. The AI admission is reported through one district attorney's letter, not independently verified model output. The family and attorney remain unnamed. No broader custody consequence or disciplinary finding is inferred.","reviewed_on":"2026-10-06"},"ai_involvement":{"basis":"The Oklahoman, KFOR and News 9 relay a district attorney's letter saying the judge acknowledged using ChatGPT for research and incorporating at least two nonexistent citations it produced into his order. The cited authorities were presented in support of the human judge's denial of a requested evaluation and his reprimand of the attorney. This supports informed_decision_about for the affected mother and attorney. It does not establish that ChatGPT itself decided custody or communicated with either of them. The underlying letter and order were not inspected, and whether the citations determined the outcome is unknown.","status":"supported"},"person_relations":["informed_decision_about"]},"name":"Prosecutor: judge used ChatGPT citations in Oklahoma custody order later vacated","summary":"In November 2025 Stephens County Associate District Judge Lawrence Wheeler issued an order in a child paternity and custody case that denied one parent's request for a psychological evaluation of the other parent and reprimanded the requesting parent's attorney 'for stooping to such frivolous trial tactics'. The attorney challenged the order at the Oklahoma Supreme Court in February 2026, telling the justices that it relied on two cases that do not exist; the challenge was dismissed in March after Wheeler vacated the order, and he is no longer on the case. According to a 17 August 2026 letter from the Stephens County district attorney, Wheeler told the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation that he used ChatGPT for research and wrote the order himself, and that at least two citations in it produced by ChatGPT do not exist. The mother in the case told News 9 that learning the order's citations were allegedly fabricated was alarming because it concerned the custody of a child. The attorney general's office declined criminal prosecution; judicial discipline remains possible.","incidentDate":"2025-11-01","incidentKind":"single_event","incidentDatePrecision":"month","exposurePattern":"unknown","reportedDate":"2026-09-09","aiSystem":"ChatGPT (OpenAI), used by the judge for legal research while preparing the order","aiProduct":"ChatGPT","aiCompany":"OpenAI","severity":"low","verificationStatus":"credible","harmCategories":[],"harmOutcomes":["legal_harm","professional_harm"],"harmOutcomeSummary":"According to the district attorney's letter as reported by The Oklahoman and KFOR, a judge acknowledged that his custody-case order contained at least two nonexistent citations supplied by ChatGPT. The order denied a request for a psychological evaluation and reprimanded the requesting attorney. The attorney challenged it at the Oklahoma Supreme Court before it was vacated. The mother described the discovery as alarming in a News 9 interview. The order and letter have not been inspected directly.","frameworkFacets":[],"causationStatus":"supported","participantUsersAffectedMin":0,"otherPeopleHarmedMin":2,"affectedCountStatus":"documented_minimum","affectedCountEvidence":"Two people affected through the judge's use of ChatGPT: the mother, whose request for a psychological evaluation was denied by the order and who describes the discovery as alarming (News 9), and the attorney who requested the evaluation and was reprimanded in the order and challenged it at the Oklahoma Supreme Court (The Oklahoman). The child and the other parent are not counted because no harm to them is reported. The judge, the AI user, is not counted: he faces a possible disciplinary process but no sanction has been reported and the complaint bundled other allegations.","victimAgeRange":"adult","jurisdiction":"US-OK","platformType":"assistant","outcomeType":"investigation_opened","outcomeStatus":"ongoing","primarySourceUrl":"https://minnlawyer.com/2026/09/09/oklahoma-judge-ai-fabricated-case-citations/","primarySourceLabel":"The Oklahoman via Minnesota Lawyer, 9 September 2026: judge used ChatGPT citations in custody order","firstPublishedAt":"2026-09-29T09:10:18.787549+00:00","updatedAt":"2026-10-06T04:48:44.069668+00:00","scopeVersion":"facts-v3","tags":["justice","family-court","judge","fabricated-citations","chatgpt","institutional-use","oklahoma"]},{"id":"2025-chiranjeevi-ai-deepfake-porn-videos-hyderabad-cybercrime-complaint","caseFacts":{"claims":[{"id":"c1","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'అక్టోబర్‌ 25న ఇచ్చిన లిఖిత పూర్వక ఫిర్యాదులో, కొందరు వెబ్‌సైట్లు తన రూపంలో కృత్రిమ మేధ (AI) సహాయంతో అసభ్య దృశ్యాలు సృష్టించి వ్యాప్తి చేస్తున్నట్లు తెలిపారు.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"'ఆర్టిఫిషియల్ ఇంటెలిజెన్స్ (ఏఐ) టెక్నాలజీని ఉపయోగించి, తన ముఖాన్ని మార్ఫింగ్ చేసి అశ్లీల (పోర్న్) వీడియోలను సృష్టిస్తున్నారని ఆయన తన ఫిర్యాదులో పేర్కొన్నారు.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"}],"assertion":"On 25 October 2025 the actor and former Union minister Chiranjeevi gave Hyderabad cybercrime police a written complaint that pornographic websites were publishing obscene videos made with AI that morphed his face and likeness.","causal_attribution":"The complainant's account; the videos' creators were not identified in the read sources."},{"id":"c2","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'Based on the complaint, the police have registered a case under Sections 67 and 67A of the IT Act, Sections 79, 294, 296 and 336(4) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS), and Sections 2(c), 3 and 4 of the Indecent Representation of Women (Prohibition) Act, 1986.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s3"},{"locator":"'చిరంజీవి ఫిర్యాదు మేరకు పోలీసులు ఐటీ చట్టంలోని సెక్షన్లు 67, 67ఏ, భారతీయ న్యాయ సంహిత (BNS)లోని సెక్షన్లు 79, 294, 296, 336(4)తో పాటు పలు ఇతర చట్టాల కింద కేసు నమోదు చేశారు.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"}],"assertion":"Police registered a case under Sections 67 and 67A of the IT Act, Sections 79, 294, 296 and 336(4) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita and the Indecent Representation of Women (Prohibition) Act.","causal_attribution":"Police registration of the case as reported; no arrest is reported in the read sources."},{"id":"c3","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'In his complaint, Chiranjeevi condemned the videos as “malicious” and said they have caused “severe and irreparable harm” to his reputation. “These fabricated clips distort public perception, undermine decades of goodwill, and inflict personal and emotional distress on me and my family,” he stated.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s3"},{"locator":"'వీడియోల కొనసాగుతున్న ప్రచారం తన మానసిక ఆరోగ్యానికీ, గౌరవానికీ నష్టం కలిగిస్తోందని పేర్కొన్నారు.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"In his complaint he said the videos caused severe and irreparable harm to his reputation and personal and emotional distress to him and his family.","causal_attribution":"His own statement of the effects in the complaint."},{"id":"c4","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'ఇలాంటి కంటెంట్‌ ప్రచారం నిరోధించేందుకు ఇప్పటికే హైదరాబాద్‌ సిటీ సివిల్‌ కోర్టు ప్రధాన న్యాయమూర్తి నుంచి తాత్కాలిక నిషేధాజ్ఞ కూడా పొందినట్లు తెలిపారు.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"'వాటిని తొలగించాలని సిటీ సివిల్కోర్టును సెప్టెంబరులో ఆశ్రయించారు. దీంతో కోర్టు అదే నెల 26న ఆయా వెబ్సైట్లలో కంటెంట్తొలగించాలని ఆదేశాలు జారీ చేసింది.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s5"}],"assertion":"Before the police complaint he had obtained an interim injunction from the Hyderabad City Civil Court; V6 Velugu reports that he approached that court in September 2025 over deepfake obscene videos on porn sites and that on 26 September it ordered the content removed from those websites.","causal_attribution":"Court order as reported; the order itself was not inspected. Locator for s5 is quoted with zero-width characters removed."}],"effects":[{"label":"AI-made obscene videos using his likeness published on pornographic sites; he reported reputational harm and emotional distress to himself and his family","claim_id":"c3","direction":"negative"}],"sources":[{"id":"s1","url":"https://www.telugupost.com/top-stories/chiranjeevi-deepfake-cybercrime-complaint-hyderabad-1595809","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"te","translation_note":"Read live in Telugu on 2026-09-29 (published 27 October 2025); summarises the written complaint. Researcher translation.","independence_group":"chiranjeevi-complaint"},{"id":"s2","url":"https://www.ap7am.com/tn/846021/chiranjeevi-lodges-police-complaint-over-deepfake-pornographic-content","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"te","translation_note":"Read live in Telugu on 2026-09-29 (published 27 October 2025); quotes the complaint and the sections registered. Researcher translation.","independence_group":"chiranjeevi-complaint"},{"id":"s3","url":"https://gulfnews.com/entertainment/chiranjeevi-files-complaint-over-ai-deepfake-vulgar-videos-on-adult-sites-says-it-distressed-his-family-1.500324422","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"Read live in English on 2026-09-29 (published 28 October 2025); quotes the complaint as reported by ANI.","independence_group":"chiranjeevi-complaint"},{"id":"s4","url":"https://www.newsx.com/offbeat/chiranjeevi-deepfake-mms-case-actor-approaches-police-over-ai-generated-obscene-videos-276933/","kind":"news_relay","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"Read live in English on 2026-09-29 (published 28 September 2026). A recap of the October 2025 complaints that gives no event dates; its only unique content is the Hyderabad police commissioner's statement. Not used for dates.","independence_group":"chiranjeevi-complaint"},{"id":"s5","url":"https://www.v6velugu.com/megastar-chiranjeevi-complaint-on-social-media-trolls-against-hyderbad-cyber-crimes-police-station","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"te","translation_note":"Read live in Telugu on 2026-09-29 (29 October 2025); reports a second complaint about abusive posts and recaps the civil suit and the deepfake complaint. Researcher translation.","independence_group":"chiranjeevi-complaint"}],"version":1,"ai_roles":["others_use"],"contexts":["privacy","everyday_life"],"unknowns":["Who made and uploaded the videos, and whether anyone has been arrested.","When the videos first appeared online; V6 Velugu reports a civil suit over them in September 2025, so they circulated by then.","Whether the videos were removed from the websites.","The exact complaint date: Telugupost says the written complaint was given on 25 October 2025; V6 Velugu dates it to 27 October 2025."],"geography":{"basis":"The complaint was filed with Hyderabad cybercrime police in Telangana, India (Telugupost; Gulf News). Before the complaint he had obtained an interim injunction from the Hyderabad City Civil Court, which Telugupost says was aimed at stopping the spread of such content and which V6 Velugu says ordered the content removed from the websites on 26 September 2025. Where the websites are hosted is not stated.","court_countries":["IN"],"event_countries":["IN"],"affected_person_countries":["IN"]},"publication":{"basis":"Published under the 2026-09-15 charter as a core case (AI-generated sexual videos depicting a named public figure without consent, with a registered police case). The account rests on his complaint as reported by Telugu and English outlets. No imagery is described beyond the complaint's terms. The lead arrived through a September 2026 recap; the event dates come from October 2025 reporting.","reviewed_on":"2026-09-29"},"ai_involvement":{"basis":"The complaint, as reported, says the videos were made with AI technology that morphed his face into obscene content (Telugupost; ap7am; Gulf News via ANI). No forensic finding is reported and the tool is not named.","status":"reported"},"person_relations":["depicted_or_impersonated"]},"name":"Hyderabad, India: actor Chiranjeevi files a cybercrime complaint over AI-generated obscene videos using his face on pornographic websites; police register a case under the IT Act and BNS","summary":"On 25 October 2025 the Telugu actor and former Union minister Konidela Chiranjeevi gave Hyderabad cybercrime police a written complaint that several pornographic websites were publishing obscene videos made with AI that morphed his face and likeness, and asked for a criminal and technical investigation and removal of the content, including from mirror sites. Police registered a case under Sections 67 and 67A of the IT Act, several sections of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita and the Indecent Representation of Women (Prohibition) Act. In the complaint he said the videos caused severe and irreparable harm to his reputation and personal and emotional distress to him and his family. He had already obtained an ad-interim injunction from the Hyderabad City Civil Court protecting his name, image and likeness (Gulf News); V6 Velugu reports that he had gone to that court in September 2025 over the same kind of deepfake videos and that on 26 September it ordered their removal. A September 2026 NewsX recap reports that Hyderabad Police Commissioner V C Sajjanar said the cybercrime team was working to trace those responsible.","incidentDate":"2025-10-25","incidentKind":"bounded_series","incidentDatePrecision":"day","exposurePattern":"unknown","reportedDate":"2025-10-27","aiSystem":"Unnamed AI tools used to morph his face into obscene videos (per his complaint)","aiProduct":"Unidentified video tool","severity":"medium","verificationStatus":"credible","harmCategories":[],"harmOutcomes":["reputational_harm","psychological_distress"],"harmOutcomeSummary":"AI-generated obscene videos using his likeness were published on pornographic websites; he reported severe harm to his reputation and emotional distress to himself and his family (his complaint via Telugupost, ap7am and Gulf News/ANI).","frameworkFacets":[],"causationStatus":"alleged","participantUsersAffectedMin":0,"otherPeopleHarmedMin":1,"affectedCountStatus":"exact","affectedCountEvidence":"One depicted person, Chiranjeevi (his complaint). His family's reported distress is his statement and is not counted separately. Exact 1.","victimAgeRange":"adult","jurisdiction":"IN-TG","platformType":"other","outcomeType":"investigation_opened","outcomeStatus":"ongoing","primarySourceUrl":"https://www.telugupost.com/top-stories/chiranjeevi-deepfake-cybercrime-complaint-hyderabad-1595809","primarySourceLabel":"Telugupost, 27 October 2025: డీప్‌ఫేక్‌ అసభ్య వీడియోలపై చిరంజీవి సైబర్‌ క్రైమ్ కు ఫిర్యాదు","firstPublishedAt":"2026-09-29T03:22:09.016588+00:00","updatedAt":"2026-09-30T01:16:59.537311+00:00","scopeVersion":"facts-v3","tags":["deepfakes","deepfake-pornography","non-consensual-intimate-imagery","tollywood","hyderabad","telangana","india","police-complaint","depicted-or-impersonated"]},{"id":"2026-hampton-new-hampshire-ai-deepfake-arrest-video-harassment-charges","caseFacts":{"claims":[{"id":"c1","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'allegedly harassed a Hampton resident for more than a year through phone calls, texts, emails and online posts'; 'with a stalking order of protection last October.'; 'In November, the victim showed police an AI-generated deepfake video'; 'allegedly created to humiliate and defame him, the affidavit states. The video depicts the victim being arrested and jailed and includes a structure resembling the victim's Hampton residence, as well as images of real people.'; 'Keyser said the events shown in the deepfake \"never happened.\"'; 'posted it on YouTube,'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"According to Hampton police and the arrest-warrant affidavit, the accused harassed a Hampton resident for more than a year through phone calls, texts, emails and online posts, continued after being served with a stalking order of protection in October 2025, and created an AI-generated deepfake video, shown to police by the victim in November 2025, that depicts the victim being arrested and jailed and includes a structure resembling his Hampton residence; police say the depicted events never happened and that the video was posted on YouTube.","causal_attribution":"Police and affidavit account (one chain); the accused's lawyer did not respond and the allegations have not been tried."},{"id":"c2","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'on four felony counts of fraudulent use of deepfakes. He was accused of creating, distributing, and presenting a video of an identifiable person to embarrass, harass, or defame them on Oct. 20, Oct. 31, Nov. 7, and Nov. 13, 2025, in Hampton.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"},{"locator":"'Each of the four Class B felony counts carries a maximum penalty of up to seven years in state prison'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"A Rockingham County grand jury indicted the accused on four felony counts of fraudulent use of deepfakes for creating, distributing and presenting a video of an identifiable person to embarrass, harass or defame on 20 October, 31 October, 7 November and 13 November 2025 in Hampton.","causal_attribution":"Indictment as listed by Patch; Seacoastonline independently reports four Class B felony counts. The indictment text was not read."},{"id":"c3","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'He was taken into custody on March 24, arraigned the next day, and released on bail.'; 'He was arrested again on Aug. 26, Keyser said. His bail was revoked'; 'Keyser said police were able to have the deepfake video'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"The accused was taken into custody on 24 March, arraigned the next day and released on bail; after alleged bail violations he was arrested again on 26 August, his bail was revoked and he is held at the Rockingham County House of Corrections; police had the deepfake video removed.","causal_attribution":"Police account as reported. The article gives no year for 24 March and 26 August; its publication on 24 September 2026 and the June 2026 indictment place both in 2026."}],"effects":[{"label":"harassed for more than a year and targeted with a posted AI-generated video falsely showing him being arrested and jailed, which police say was made to humiliate and defame him","claim_id":"c1","direction":"negative"}],"sources":[{"id":"s1","url":"https://www.seacoastonline.com/story/news/local/2026/09/24/hampton-police-man-charged-ai-deepfake-harassment-campaign/91897502007/","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"Read on 2026-09-27 in full through the identical Gannett path on eu.seacoastonline.com (www returned 402). Quotes the police sergeant and the arrest-warrant affidavit.","independence_group":"hampton-police-affidavit"},{"id":"s2","url":"https://patch.com/new-hampshire/salem-nh/worcester-man-indicted-hampton-use-deepfakes-charges-rockingham-county","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"Read live on 2026-09-27 (Salem NH Patch, 29 June 2026). A roundup of Rockingham County Superior Court indictments; the indictment itself was not read.","independence_group":"rockingham-indictments"}],"version":1,"ai_roles":["others_use"],"contexts":["everyday_life","privacy","justice"],"unknowns":["Which AI tool was used to make the video and how it was established that the video was AI-generated.","How widely the video was seen before removal, and the victim's own account of its effects.","The start date of the harassment ('more than a year') and the nature of the 'perceived past disagreement'.","The accused's plea and any trial date; the indictment text was not read.","Whether the other 'real people' whose images appear in the video were harmed."],"geography":{"basis":"The victim lives in Hampton, New Hampshire and the indicted conduct is placed 'in Hampton' (Patch); the accused lived in Worcester, Massachusetts; the case is in Rockingham County Superior Court (Patch) and he is held at the Rockingham County House of Corrections (Seacoastonline).","court_countries":["US"],"event_countries":["US"],"affected_person_countries":["US"]},"publication":{"basis":"Published under the 2026-09-15 charter as a core case (an AI-generated deepfake depicting a real person in events that did not happen, used in a harassment campaign): Seacoastonline reports the police and affidavit account in detail and Patch separately lists the grand-jury indictment on four deepfake counts. The allegations are untested. The victim is unnamed and the accused is not named here.","reviewed_on":"2026-09-27"},"ai_involvement":{"basis":"The arrest-warrant affidavit, as reported by Seacoastonline, describes an 'AI-generated deepfake video' of the victim, and the grand jury indicted the man on counts of fraudulent use of deepfakes (Patch). The tool used is not identified and no forensic finding is reported.","status":"reported"},"person_relations":["depicted_or_impersonated"]},"name":"Hampton, New Hampshire: police say a Massachusetts man harassed a Hampton resident for more than a year and posted an AI-generated deepfake video showing the resident being arrested and jailed, events police say never happened; he was indicted on four felony counts of fraudulent use of deepfakes and is held after his bail was revoked","summary":"Hampton police say a man from Worcester, Massachusetts harassed a Hampton resident for more than a year through phone calls, texts, emails and online posts, stemming from a perceived past disagreement, and kept going after the victim asked him to stop and after he was served with a stalking order of protection in October 2025. In November 2025 the victim showed police an AI-generated deepfake video that, according to the arrest-warrant affidavit, the man created to humiliate and defame him; it shows the victim being arrested and jailed and includes a structure resembling the victim's Hampton home and images of real people. A police sergeant said the depicted events never happened and that the video was posted on YouTube. A Rockingham County grand jury indicted the man on four Class B felony counts of fraudulent use of deepfakes under RSA 638:26-a, for creating, distributing and presenting a video of an identifiable person on 20 October, 31 October, 7 November and 13 November 2025. He turned himself in on 24 March, was released on bail, was arrested again on 26 August for alleged bail violations and is held at the Rockingham County House of Corrections. Police had the video removed. The AI tool is not named and the victim's own account is relayed only through the police.","incidentDate":"2025-10-20","incidentEndDate":"2025-11-13","incidentKind":"bounded_series","incidentDatePrecision":"range","exposurePattern":"repeated_interactions","reportedDate":"2026-06-29","aiSystem":"An unnamed generative-AI tool used to make a deepfake video of a real person (Hampton police and arrest-warrant affidavit via Seacoastonline); the tool is not identified","aiProduct":"Unidentified video tool","severity":"medium","verificationStatus":"credible","harmCategories":[],"harmOutcomes":["exploitation_or_abuse","reputational_harm"],"harmOutcomeSummary":"Police say the victim was harassed for more than a year and targeted with a posted AI-generated video falsely depicting his arrest and jailing, which the affidavit says was made to humiliate and defame him (Hampton police and affidavit via Seacoastonline; indictment via Patch).","frameworkFacets":[],"causationStatus":"alleged","participantUsersAffectedMin":0,"otherPeopleHarmedMin":1,"affectedCountStatus":"exact","affectedCountEvidence":"One harassed and depicted person, the Hampton resident (Seacoastonline; the indictment counts concern 'an identifiable person', Patch). The 'real people' whose images appear in the video are not counted: no harm to them is reported. Exact 1.","victimAgeRange":"unknown","jurisdiction":"US-NH","platformType":"other","outcomeType":"criminal_charges","outcomeStatus":"ongoing","primarySourceUrl":"https://www.seacoastonline.com/story/news/local/2026/09/24/hampton-police-man-charged-ai-deepfake-harassment-campaign/91897502007/","primarySourceLabel":"Seacoastonline (Portsmouth Herald), 24 September 2026: Hampton police: Man charged in AI deepfake harassment campaign","firstPublishedAt":"2026-09-27T03:39:38.936126+00:00","updatedAt":"2026-09-30T01:17:39.330256+00:00","scopeVersion":"facts-v3","tags":["deepfakes","harassment","stalking","new-hampshire","hampton","criminal-charges","rsa-638-26-a","depicted-or-impersonated"]},{"id":"2026-nt-police-deepfake-video-former-assistant-commissioner","caseFacts":{"claims":[{"id":"c1","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'In December 2025, I became aware that an AI-generated, sexually explicit video had been created using my official Northern Territory Police photograph,'; 'The video was then allegedly shared among serving members of the police force.'; 'A former Northern Territory Police assistant commissioner has taken her old colleagues to court for sharing a deepfake sexually explicit video that used her professional photograph.'; 'Ms Tonkin said what happened to her was \"extremely distressing, personally and professionally\".'; 'Janelle Tonkin issued a statement yesterday after criminal proceedings on the issue were finalised'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"In a statement issued on 23 September 2026, after criminal proceedings were finalised, the former NT Police assistant commissioner said that in December 2025 she became aware that an AI-generated, sexually explicit video had been created using her official NT Police photograph; ABC News reports the video was allegedly shared among serving members of the force and that she took former colleagues to court over it; she described the experience as extremely distressing personally and professionally.","causal_attribution":"The complainant's own statement and the ABC's description; the court proceedings and their outcome were not inspected. The 23 September date is derived from 'yesterday' in an article posted 24 September 2026."},{"id":"c2","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'The outcome of the court proceedings is unknown.'; 'However, the conduct that Commander Tonkin was subject to in this matter, was, and always will be, totally unacceptable,'; 'The NT Police Association (NTPA) also condemned the conduct, but could not confirm details of an internal police investigation into the matter'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"The outcome of the court proceedings is not reported; the NT Police Force said it does not comment on internal investigations and was legally constrained on matters before the court, but called the conduct totally unacceptable; the NT Police Association condemned the conduct and could not confirm details of any internal investigation.","causal_attribution":"Statements to the ABC by the NT Police Force and the NTPA."}],"effects":[{"label":"an AI-generated sexually explicit video made from a senior police officer's official photograph was circulated among her colleagues, which she describes as extremely distressing personally and professionally","claim_id":"c1","direction":"negative"}],"sources":[{"id":"s1","url":"https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-09-24/police-officers-share-ai-video-of-former-assistant-commissioner/107189604","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"en-AU","translation_note":"Read live on 2026-09-25 (ABC News, Kylie Stevenson and Tilda Colling, 24 September 2026; html lang=en-AU). Carries Ms Tonkin's statement of 23 September, the NT Police Force and NT Police Association responses.","independence_group":"abc-tonkin-statement"},{"id":"s2","url":"https://www.ntnews.com.au/truecrimeaustralia/police-courts-nt/former-nt-police-assistant-commissioner-janelle-tonkin-alleges-multiple-cops-shared-extremely-distressing-pornographic-deepfake-video/news-story/982b30e4376d3a54781c2d5a63576e2f","kind":"news_report","access":"unavailable","language":null,"translation_note":"Not read: the NT News item of 23 September 2026 returned HTTP 403 to this host (News Corp Australia); its headline in the Bing News feed refers to the same statement. Listed for completeness; no claim rests on it.","independence_group":"abc-tonkin-statement"}],"version":1,"ai_roles":["others_use"],"contexts":["work","privacy"],"unknowns":["Who created and who shared the video, how many officers were involved and how widely it circulated.","The charges laid, the court, and the outcome of the criminal proceedings (described by the ABC as finalised but unknown).","When the video was created; she became aware of it in December 2025.","The tool used to generate the video.","Whether an internal NT Police investigation or disciplinary process is continuing.","Whether Ms Tonkin remains a serving member of the NT Police Force: the ABC calls her a former assistant commissioner, while the NTPF statement refers to her as Commander Tonkin."],"geography":{"basis":"The video was circulated among serving members of the Northern Territory Police Force, the complainant's workplace when the video circulated (her own words: 'circulated among colleagues'), and the criminal proceedings concerned former colleagues in the Northern Territory (ABC News). Her residence is not stated separately; the affected-person country records her NT Police workplace. The court is not named in the report; court_countries is left empty.","court_countries":[],"event_countries":["AU"],"affected_person_countries":["AU"]},"publication":{"basis":"Published under the 2026-09-15 charter as a workplace deepfake case with one identified depicted person who made the account public in her own name: an AI-generated sexually explicit video created from a senior officer's official photograph and allegedly circulated among her colleagues, reported by ABC News with the complainant's statement and the police force's and association's responses (one chain; a paywalled News Corp report was not read). Claims are recorded as reported; no alleged offender is named.","reviewed_on":"2026-09-25"},"ai_involvement":{"basis":"Ms Tonkin's statement, quoted by ABC News, says the sexually explicit video was 'AI-generated' and created from her official police photograph; the ABC describes it as a deepfake. No tool is identified and no court finding on the video's creation is reported.","status":"reported"},"person_relations":["depicted_or_impersonated"]},"name":"Former NT Police assistant commissioner says an AI-generated sexually explicit video made from her official police photograph circulated among colleagues","summary":"Janelle Tonkin, a former assistant commissioner of the Northern Territory Police Force and now president of the Australasian Council of Women and Policing, said in a statement issued on 23 September 2026, after criminal proceedings on the matter were finalised, that in December 2025 she became aware that an AI-generated, sexually explicit video had been created using her official NT Police photograph; ABC News reports that the video was allegedly shared among serving members of the force and that she had taken former colleagues to court over it. She called the experience 'extremely distressing, personally and professionally' and said having her professional portrait 'turned into pornography and circulated among colleagues is something no person should have to experience'. The outcome of the court proceedings is not reported. An NT Police spokesperson said the force does not comment on internal investigations and was legally constrained from commenting on matters before the court, but that the conduct she was subjected to 'was, and always will be, totally unacceptable'; the NT Police Association condemned the conduct. Ms Tonkin said the video sat within a broader set of experiences in the force that she intends to describe later.","incidentDate":"2025-12-01","incidentKind":"single_event","incidentDatePrecision":"month","exposurePattern":"unknown","reportedDate":"2026-09-24","aiSystem":"AI video-generation ('deepfake') tool used to create a sexually explicit video from an official police portrait photograph; not identified in the report","aiProduct":"Unidentified video tool","severity":"high","verificationStatus":"credible","harmCategories":[],"harmOutcomes":["exploitation_or_abuse","psychological_distress"],"harmOutcomeSummary":"A senior police officer's official portrait was used to create an AI-generated sexually explicit video that was allegedly circulated among her serving colleagues; she describes the experience as extremely distressing personally and professionally (her own statement as reported by ABC News). The circulation and the court proceedings are as described by ABC News; the proceedings' outcome is not reported.","frameworkFacets":[],"causationStatus":"supported","participantUsersAffectedMin":0,"otherPeopleHarmedMin":1,"affectedCountStatus":"exact","affectedCountEvidence":"One depicted person, the former assistant commissioner who issued the statement (ABC News). Exact 1.","victimAgeRange":"adult","jurisdiction":"AU","platformType":"other","outcomeType":"criminal_charges","outcomeStatus":"unknown","primarySourceUrl":"https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-09-24/police-officers-share-ai-video-of-former-assistant-commissioner/107189604","primarySourceLabel":"ABC News, 24 September 2026: NT police officers allegedly circulated sexually explicit AI-generated video of former assistant commissioner","firstPublishedAt":"2026-09-25T03:54:29.681398+00:00","updatedAt":"2026-10-12T03:16:24.051108+00:00","scopeVersion":"facts-v3","tags":["deepfake","non-consensual-imagery","workplace","police","australia","northern-territory","criminal-proceedings","depicted-or-impersonated"]},{"id":"2025-kulai-johor-school-ai-nude-images-sold-rm2","caseFacts":{"claims":[{"id":"c1","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'kejadian itu terbongkar apabila seorang wanita berusia 18 tahun membuat laporan polis pada 3 April lalu, selepas mendapati gambar lucah yang disunting menggunakan wajahnya tular di media sosial' (the case came to light when an 18-year-old woman lodged a police report on 3 April after finding nude images edited with her face circulating on social media); 'suspek yang masih bersekolah itu menggunakan aplikasi teknologi kecerdasan buatan (AI) untuk menyunting gambar mangsa yang diperoleh daripada akaun media sosial' (the suspect, still a schoolboy, used an AI application to edit victims' photos obtained from social media accounts); 'gambar yang disunting kemudian dijual kepada orang ramai dengan harga murah iaitu RM2' (the edited images were then sold to the public at the low price of RM2).","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"'the cops had received eight reports against the teenager, who was arrested at 5pm on Tuesday (April 8) in Kulai'; 'seized a phone believed to have been used to edit and upload lewd photos of his victims on social media, which are then sold at RM2 each'.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"},{"locator":"'A 19-year-old victim lodged a police report after finding an explicit image with her likeness on social media' (gives the complainant's age as 19; the police statement says 18).","relation":"contradicts","source_id":"s12"}],"assertion":"An 18-year-old woman lodged a police report on 3 April 2025 after finding nude images edited with her face circulating on social media and offered for sale; police arrested a 16-year-old schoolboy in Kulai at about 5 pm on 8 April, seized a phone believed used to edit and upload the images, and said he used an AI application to edit photos obtained from victims' social media accounts and sold the edited images at RM2 each.","causal_attribution":"Johor police chief's written statement of 9 April 2025, relayed by Sinar Harian and The Star; single official chain."},{"id":"c2","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'gambar yang disunting kemudian dijual kepada orang ramai dengan harga murah iaitu RM2' (the edited images were sold to the public at RM2); 'polis menerima lapan laporan dari mangsa lain melibatkan isu kes sama' (police received eight reports from other victims on the same matter).","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"'一名女学生昨日在网络发长文控诉，除了发现自己的照片遭同班男同学合成裸照，并发现对方在通讯软件Telegram开设一个聊天室，并在内散播合成照片予其他人观赏，该聊天室内有超过200人' (a female pupil posted a long complaint online yesterday: besides finding her photos composited into nude images by a male classmate, she found he had opened a Telegram chat room, spreading the composites for others to view, with more than 200 members).","relation":"supports","source_id":"s4"},{"locator":"'said it has expelled a student over his involvement in distributing deepfake pornographic images of students and alumni'.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s5"},{"locator":"'Kami dimaklumkan terdapat beberapa kumpulan di media sosial yang menyebarkan gambar-gambar telah dimanipulasi secara digital' (we were informed that several social media groups were spreading digitally manipulated images).","relation":"supports","source_id":"s3"}],"assertion":"AI-generated nude composites of current and former pupils of the school were produced from their social media photos, shared in online groups including a Telegram chat room of more than 200 members, and sold online.","causal_attribution":"Supported by four separate accounts: the police statement, the pupil's own post, the school board's statement and the deputy minister's post. Recorded as reported (not corroborated) because the Telegram-group size and the social-media origin of the photos each rest on a single chain."},{"id":"c3","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'该女生向校方反映有关情况，但该男生仅被记了两个小过或者一个大过' (the girl reported the situation to the school, but the boy was only given two minor demerits or one major demerit); '老师接获女校友投诉相关事件后，竟指受害者们将自己的照片发在社交媒体上，就需要自行承担后果的回应，令她们觉得受到二次伤害' (after receiving alumni complaints, a teacher responded that the victims had posted their own photos on social media and had to bear the consequences themselves, which made them feel they had suffered a second injury).","relation":"supports","source_id":"s4"},{"locator":"'The school acknowledged its delay in handling the incident and said it would implement stricter measures moving forward'; 'An internal probe found online allegations against a disciplinary teacher to be baseless and distorted, the board said'.","relation":"context","source_id":"s5"},{"locator":"'Mangsa memaklumkan kes seperti ini bukan pertama kali berlaku. Sebaliknya ada insiden serupa telah dilaporkan kepada pihak sekolah sejak tahun lepas, namun tiada tindakan berkesan diambil' (victims informed [the deputy minister] that such a case was not the first; similar incidents had been reported to the school since the previous year without effective action).","relation":"context","source_id":"s11"}],"assertion":"A female pupil's post of 8 April 2025 said the school had responded to her complaint with only minor demerits for the classmate, and that a teacher told alumni complainants they had to bear the consequences of posting their own photos online, which the complainants experienced as a second injury.","causal_attribution":"The pupil's own post as relayed by Oriental Daily; the school board acknowledged delay but said allegations against a disciplinary teacher were distorted."},{"id":"c4","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'30 to 40 of the student's schoolmates and his school's alumni were believed to have become victims'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"},{"locator":"'Sehingga kini, polis menerima lapan laporan dari mangsa lain melibatkan isu kes sama' (so far, police have received eight reports from other victims on the same matter).","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"'as of noon yesterday, 22 reports had been lodged by victims against the 16-year-old suspect'; 'so far, 38 individuals have been identified as victims, with the youngest reportedly only 12 or 13 years old'.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s6"},{"locator":"'29 police reports had been lodged against the teen, as of noon Tuesday (April 15)'.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s7"},{"locator":"'Sekurang-kurangnya 40 individu dipercayai menjadi mangsa' (at least 40 people are believed to be victims); 'mangsa terdiri daripada bekas pelajar dan pelajar semasa sekolah tersebut, termasuk remaja seawal usia 14 tahun' (the victims are former and current pupils of the school, including teenagers as young as 14); 'seramai tujuh orang mangsa telah dibantu oleh pegawai dari pejabat saya untuk membuat laporan polis' (seven victims have been helped by officers from my office to lodge police reports).","relation":"supports","source_id":"s3"},{"locator":"'Setakat ini, mangsa-mangsa yang dikenal pasti adalah 38 orang dan ada antara mereka yang menghubungi kami berumur 13 tahun' (so far 38 victims have been identified and some of those who contacted us are 13).","relation":"supports","source_id":"s11"}],"assertion":"Police reports lodged by victims against the suspect rose from eight at the arrest to 22 by noon on 12 April and 29 by noon on 15 April 2025; the deputy minister said on 9 April, when her office had helped seven victims lodge reports, that 30 to 40 people were believed affected, including pupils as young as 14, and on 12 April that 38 people had been identified, the youngest 12 or 13.","causal_attribution":"Police counts from the Johor police chief; victim estimates from the deputy minister, who assisted victims. The counts differ by date and by counting method."},{"id":"c5","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'The board said that contrary to online claims, the student did not receive only light reprimands but was removed from the school entirely'; 'pledged full support for the victims and their families, including counselling services by school and external professionals'.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s5"},{"locator":"'surat perletakan jawatan daripada pengetua ... telah diterima pada 12 April lalu' (the principal's resignation letter was received on 12 April); 'dalam mesyuarat bulanan pada 17 April, kami sebulat suara bersetuju untuk menghormati keputusan' (at the monthly meeting on 17 April we unanimously agreed to respect the decision); 'satu pasukan bebas terdiri daripada lima ahli ditubuhkan bagi menyemak aduan yang dikemukakan oleh bekas pelajar' (an independent five-member team was formed to review complaints submitted by former pupils).","relation":"supports","source_id":"s8"}],"assertion":"The school board announced on 10 April 2025 that the pupil had been expelled, acknowledged delay in handling the case and promised counselling and legal aid for victims; the principal submitted his resignation on 12 April, which the board accepted at a 17 April meeting while forming a five-member team to review former pupils' complaints.","causal_attribution":"School board statements of 10 and 18 April 2025 as reported by Malay Mail and FMT."},{"id":"c6","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'Also remanded alongside the teenager is a 19-year-old male, who has been remanded for six days starting Wednesday for the same purpose'; 'The remand application was made to facilitate investigations under Section 7 of the Sexual Offences Against Children Act 2017'.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s7"},{"locator":"'A 16-year-old student today pleaded guilty in the Kulai Magistrate's Court to possessing pornographic materials on his mobile phone'; 'the teen denied a second charge under the Sexual Offences Against Children Act 2017. This charge relates to allegedly using artificial intelligence to digitally alter photographs of a 17-year-old female classmate into explicit images'; 'Magistrate R. Salini granted bail at RM4,000 for each charge and set June 23 for the next hearing'.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s9"},{"locator":"'dia didakwa menghasilkan bahan penganiayaan seksual seorang mangsa perempuan berusia 17 tahun dengan cara menyunting gambar menjadi gambar lucah' (he is charged with producing sexual abuse material of a 17-year-old female victim by editing an image into a pornographic image); 'remaja berkenaan mengaku bersalah memiliki bahan lucah dalam telefon bimbitnya' (the teenager pleaded guilty to possessing pornographic material on his phone); 'menetapkan 23 Jun ini untuk sebutan semula kes' (fixed 23 June for mention).","relation":"supports","source_id":"s10"},{"locator":"'If found guilty, the court may impose a warning, a good behaviour bond, a fine, community service, or placement in an approved school'.","relation":"context","source_id":"s12"}],"assertion":"The boy's remand was extended to 20 April 2025 and a 19-year-old male was remanded alongside him for investigation under Section 7 of the Sexual Offences Against Children Act 2017 and Section 233 of the Communications and Multimedia Act 1998; on 23 April 2025 the boy pleaded guilty at the Kulai Magistrate's Court to possessing 14 pornographic images on his phone under Section 292(a) of the Penal Code and not guilty to producing sexual abuse material by editing a 17-year-old girl's image under Section 5 of the Sexual Offences Against Children Act 2017, with bail of RM4,000 per charge and mention fixed for 23 June 2025.","causal_attribution":"Court reports of the closed-door hearing of 23 April 2025 and The Star's remand report of 16 April; the charge sheet itself was not inspected."}],"effects":[{"label":"AI-edited nude images of schoolmates and alumni, including minors, were circulated in a Telegram chat room and sold online at RM2 each","claim_id":"c2","direction":"negative"},{"label":"a victim described the school treating the matter as a minor infraction and a teacher blaming complainants, which she called a second injury","claim_id":"c3","direction":"negative"}],"sources":[{"id":"s1","url":"https://www.sinarharian.com.my/article/721913/berita/semasa/pelajar-sekolah-ditahan-sunting-jual-gambar-lucah-guna-aii","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"ms","translation_note":"Read in Malay on 2026-09-19 (Sinar Harian, published 2025-04-09 16:38 +08:00). Johor police chief's written statement of Wednesday 9 April 2025. Model reading of the original; English glosses in the locators are the reviewer's own.","independence_group":"johor-police-statement-2025-04-09"},{"id":"s2","url":"https://www.thestar.com.my/news/nation/2025/04/09/johor-teenager-nabbed-for-allegedly-creating-selling-lewd-ai-pics-of-schoolmates","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"Read in English on 2026-09-19 (The Star, 9 April 2025). Same police statement; also carries the deputy minister's 9 April statement, which is cited here only through s3.","independence_group":"johor-police-statement-2025-04-09"},{"id":"s3","url":"https://malaysiatribune.news/40-pelajar-mangsa-gambar-lucah-deepfake-suspek-remaja-ditahan/","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"ms","translation_note":"Read in Malay on 2026-09-19 (Malaysia Tribune, published 2025-04-10 19:00 +08:00). Deputy Communications Minister's Facebook post and the Johor police chief's remand confirmation. Model reading of the original.","independence_group":"deputy-minister-facebook-2025-04-09"},{"id":"s4","url":"https://www.orientaldaily.com.my/news/society/2025/04/09/724881","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"zh","translation_note":"Read in Chinese on 2026-09-19 through a Wayback Machine capture (the live page returns HTTP 403); Oriental Daily, published 2025-04-09 14:42 +08:00. Relays a female pupil's long social media post of 8 April, the principal's confirmation of the arrest and the deputy minister's post. Model reading of the original.","independence_group":"pupil-viral-post-2025-04-08"},{"id":"s5","url":"https://www.malaymail.com/news/malaysia/2025/04/10/kulai-school-says-expelled-student-in-deepfake-porn-scandal-admits-slow-action/172624","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"Read in English on 2026-09-19 (Malay Mail, 10 April 2025). School board statement as reported by Malaysiakini.","independence_group":"school-board-statement-2025-04-10"},{"id":"s6","url":"https://www.thestar.com.my/news/nation/2025/04/13/deepfake-scandal-widens","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"Read in English on 2026-09-19 (The Star, published 2025-04-12 16:00 UTC, print date 13 April). Deputy minister's press conference at the Kulai MP office on 12 April and the Johor police chief's count of reports and remand extension.","independence_group":"deputy-minister-press-conference-2025-04-12"},{"id":"s7","url":"https://www.thestar.com.my/news/nation/2025/04/16/johor-teen-in-ai-doctored-lewd-pics-probe-remanded-another-five-days","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"Read in English on 2026-09-19 (The Star, 16 April 2025). Remand extension, the 19-year-old, the statutes and the 29-report count.","independence_group":"remand-hearing-2025-04-16"},{"id":"s8","url":"https://www.freemalaysiatoday.com/category/bahasa/tempatan/2025/04/18/pelajar-jual-gambar-bogel-pengetua-sekolah-menengah-di-kulai-letak-jawatan","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"ms","translation_note":"Read in Malay on 2026-09-19 (FMT Malay edition, 18 April 2025). School board statement on the principal's resignation and the review team. Model reading of the original.","independence_group":"school-board-statement-2025-04-18"},{"id":"s9","url":"https://www.malaymail.com/news/malaysia/2025/04/23/johor-teen-denies-ai-doctored-lewd-photo-charge-admits-to-porn-possession/174177","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"Read in English on 2026-09-19 (Malay Mail, 23 April 2025). Court report of the closed-door charging at the Kulai Magistrate's Court.","independence_group":"kulai-magistrate-court-2025-04-23"},{"id":"s10","url":"https://www.sinarharian.com.my/article/724591/berita/semasa/remaja-mengaku-tidak-bersalah-miliki-sunting-gambar-lucah-guna-ai","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"ms","translation_note":"Read in Malay on 2026-09-19 (Sinar Harian, published 2025-04-23 14:17 +08:00). Court report of the same hearing. Model reading of the original.","independence_group":"kulai-magistrate-court-2025-04-23"},{"id":"s11","url":"https://themerdekatimes.com/news/2025/04/38-termasuk-pelajar-jadi-mangsa-suntingan-gambar-lucah-babit-sekolah-menengah-persendirian-cina/","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"ms","translation_note":"Read in Malay on 2026-09-19 through a Wayback Machine capture (the live page returns HTTP 403); The Merdeka Times, published 2025-04-16 15:17 +08:00, reporting the 12 April press conference. Model reading of the original.","independence_group":"deputy-minister-press-conference-2025-04-12"},{"id":"s12","url":"https://www.thestar.com.my/news/nation/2025/04/24/teen-admits-having-porn-on-phone","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"Read in English on 2026-09-19 (The Star, published 2025-04-23 16:00 UTC, print date 24 April). Court report; gives the complainant's age as 19, against 18 in the police statement.","independence_group":"kulai-magistrate-court-2025-04-23"}],"version":1,"ai_roles":["others_use"],"contexts":["education","privacy","justice"],"unknowns":["When the images were created and sold: the police statement dates only the first report (3 April 2025) and the arrest (8 April); the deputy minister said victims had reported similar incidents to the school the previous year. The composites and school complaints predate the 3 April police report (a pupil's post says demerits had already been given before 8 April; the school was told the previous year), so the series may have begun before April 2025.","The outcome of the Section 5 Sexual Offences Against Children Act charge after the 23 June 2025 mention, and whether the 19-year-old was charged, were not found.","The AI application used is not named and no forensic report has been published.","The complainant's age is given as 18 by police and 19 by The Star's court report.","Whether the 29 police reports correspond one to one with the 38 people the deputy minister said were identified is not established.","The number of people in the Telegram chat room and the number of buyers are known only from the pupil's post."],"geography":{"basis":"Arrest by Kulai district police in Kulai, Johor; victims are pupils and alumni of a school in Kulai; charges at the Kulai Magistrate's Court, Johor, Malaysia.","court_countries":["MY"],"event_countries":["MY"],"affected_person_countries":["MY"]},"publication":{"basis":"Published under the 2026-09-15 charter as a harmful-artifact case with consequential institutional and criminal responses: AI-edited nude images of dozens of schoolmates, including minors, sold online, followed by expulsion, criminal charges and the principal's resignation. Twelve items read across Malay, English and Chinese from five separate accounts (police, deputy minister, the pupil's post, the school board, court reports). The suspect is a minor and unnamed; victims are unnamed; the school is described by type and district only and the principal is not named.","reviewed_on":"2026-09-19"},"ai_involvement":{"basis":"The Johor police chief said early investigation found the suspect used an AI application to edit photos obtained from victims' social media accounts; the deputy minister and the school board described the images as deepfakes; the charge sheet describes producing sexual abuse material by editing a 17-year-old's image. No forensic finding on the tool has been published and the application is not named.","status":"reported"},"person_relations":["depicted_or_impersonated"]},"name":"Kulai, Johor: a 16-year-old pupil was arrested and charged after AI-edited nude images of schoolmates and alumni, including minors, were sold online at RM2 each; police logged 29 victim reports and the principal resigned","summary":"In April 2025 Johor police arrested a 16-year-old pupil of a private Chinese independent secondary school in Kulai district after an 18-year-old woman reported on 3 April that nude images edited with her face were circulating on social media and being offered for sale. Police said the boy used an AI application to edit photos taken from victims' social media accounts and sold the images at RM2 each; a phone was seized and a 19-year-old was later remanded alongside him. Eight victim reports at the time of the arrest on 8 April grew to 22 by 12 April and 29 by 15 April. The Deputy Communications Minister, who is also the Kulai MP, said on 9 April that most victims were alumni but some were current pupils as young as 14, and on 12 April that 38 people had been identified, the youngest 12 or 13, and her office helped victims lodge reports. A female pupil's viral post said a Telegram chat room of more than 200 members shared the composites and that the school had initially treated the matter as a minor infraction; the school board expelled the boy, acknowledged its slow handling, offered counselling and legal aid, and the principal resigned on 12 April. On 23 April 2025 the boy pleaded guilty at the Kulai Magistrate's Court to possessing 14 pornographic images and not guilty to a charge under Section 5 of the Sexual Offences Against Children Act 2017 of producing sexual abuse material by editing a 17-year-old classmate's image; no verdict on that charge has been found.","incidentDate":"2025-04-01","incidentKind":"bounded_series","incidentDatePrecision":"month","exposurePattern":"repeated_interactions","reportedDate":"2025-04-09","aiSystem":"AI image-editing application used to composite victims' faces onto nude bodies (application not identified); images sold through social media and a Telegram chat room","aiProduct":"Unidentified image tool","severity":"high","verificationStatus":"credible","harmCategories":[],"harmOutcomes":["exploitation_or_abuse","reputational_harm","psychological_distress"],"harmOutcomeSummary":"AI-edited nude images of at least 29 schoolmates and alumni, including minors, were circulated and sold online; a victim's post said complainants had silently endured the abuse and felt a second injury from a teacher's response; the case led to expulsion, criminal charges and the principal's resignation.","frameworkFacets":[],"causationStatus":"supported","participantUsersAffectedMin":0,"otherPeopleHarmedMin":29,"affectedCountStatus":"documented_minimum","affectedCountEvidence":"Lower bound: 29 police reports lodged by victims against the suspect as of noon 15 April 2025 (Johor police chief, reported by The Star on 16 April); the deputy minister said 38 people had been identified as victims by 12 April and estimated 30 to 40 on 9 April. Reports are treated as one per victim because the police chief described them as reports from other victims; the identified-victim figure is not used because it was not documented person by person. Chat-room members and buyers are not counted.","victimAgeRange":"minor","jurisdiction":"MY","platformType":"other","outcomeType":"criminal_charges","outcomeStatus":"ongoing","primarySourceUrl":"https://www.thestar.com.my/news/nation/2025/04/09/johor-teenager-nabbed-for-allegedly-creating-selling-lewd-ai-pics-of-schoolmates","primarySourceLabel":"The Star, 9 April 2025: Johor teenager nabbed for allegedly creating, selling lewd AI pics of schoolmates (Johor police chief's statement)","firstPublishedAt":"2026-09-20T03:19:33.537691+00:00","updatedAt":"2026-09-30T01:17:08.091902+00:00","scopeVersion":"facts-v3","tags":["deepfake","ncii","minors","school","malaysia","johor","criminal-charges","depicted-or-impersonated","image-based-abuse","telegram"]},{"id":"2026-shanghai-ai-generated-persona-online-romance-fraud-170k-yuan","caseFacts":{"claims":[{"id":"c1","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"«对方自称1992年出生，是知名三甲医院医生，手握医院物业工程项目资源» (she claimed to be born in 1992, a doctor at a well-known tertiary hospital, holding hospital property-engineering project resources); «陆续向对方转账共计17万元» (transferred a total of 170,000 yuan in instalments); «就连想要打一通视频电话，对方也会以母亲在一旁看管作为理由拒绝» (even a video call was refused on the ground that her mother was watching); «反复回想交往细节，…越想越不对劲，才到派出所报案» (thinking back over the details he felt something was wrong and went to the police station).","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"},{"locator":"«在短短5个月时间里，…陆续向对方转账共计17万元» (in just five months he transferred 170,000 yuan in total); «去年开始与其频繁聊天» (frequent chatting began last year, i.e. 2025).","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"Over five months the man transferred a total of 170,000 yuan to a woman he had met on a social platform in 2021 who claimed to be a 1992-born doctor at a well-known top-tier hospital with property-engineering projects to award; she refused meetings and video calls citing her mother; he reported to the police when the promised projects never materialised.","causal_attribution":"police account via the programme 案件聚焦, relayed by Jiupai News and Guangming Net; single official chain."},{"id":"c2","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"«实际出生于1961年，现年65岁，她并无医生资质，仅曾在医院从事后勤保洁工作» (actually born in 1961, now 65, no medical qualification, had only done hospital logistics cleaning); «注意到部分视频角落有一行小字提示：本作品含AI生成内容» (noticed a small corner label on some videos: this work contains AI-generated content); «累计近七千条日常视频、上万粉丝，全都是AI磨皮、场景合成制作而成» (nearly 7,000 videos and 10,000-plus followers, all made with AI skin-smoothing and scene compositing); «一人分饰两角，利用多个账号，分别扮演自己和早已离世的母亲» (played two roles through multiple accounts, herself and her long-dead mother).","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"},{"locator":"«…社交账号发布的累计近7000条日常视频、上万粉丝，全都是AI磨皮、场景合成制作而成» (the account's nearly 7,000 videos were all AI-processed).","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"Police found the woman was born in 1961, aged 65, had no medical qualification and had worked as a hospital cleaner; her close to 7,000 videos were made with AI skin-smoothing and scene compositing, some carrying a small 'contains AI-generated content' label the victim had never noticed; she used multiple accounts to play herself and her deceased mother.","causal_attribution":"Police findings as presented in the programme; no independent chain."},{"id":"c3","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"«全部被她用于医美护肤、购置衣物等个人挥霍。2009年，她还曾因诈骗罪被判处有期徒刑四年六个月» (all spent on cosmetic treatments and clothing; in 2009 she was sentenced to four years six months for fraud); «因涉嫌诈骗罪，已被公安机关依法采取刑事强制措施» (criminal coercive measures taken for suspected fraud).","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"},{"locator":"«…曾于2009年因诈骗罪被判监4年半。目前，…因涉嫌诈骗罪已被公安机关采取刑事强制措施» (2009 fraud sentence of four and a half years; now under criminal coercive measures).","relation":"supports","source_id":"s3"}],"assertion":"The 170,000 yuan was spent on cosmetic skin treatments and clothing; the woman had been sentenced to four years and six months for fraud in 2009; she is under criminal coercive measures for suspected fraud.","causal_attribution":"Police statement relayed by press."},{"id":"c4","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"«同时与十余人保持暧昧关系» (simultaneously kept ambiguous relationships with more than ten people). (police-attributed sentence in the Epoch Times)","relation":"supports","source_id":"s4"},{"locator":"headline: '65岁阿姨AI换脸装“90后”美女，谈10多个暧昧对象' (the s1 body text does not repeat it)","relation":"context","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"Police said the woman simultaneously kept ambiguous relationships with more than ten people; no loss by anyone else is reported.","causal_attribution":"Police statement relayed by the Epoch Times; context only, no further victims quantified."}],"effects":[{"label":"a man transferred 170,000 yuan over five months to a fabricated AI-processed persona and the money is reported spent","claim_id":"c1","direction":"negative"}],"sources":[{"id":"s1","url":"https://m.gmw.cn/2026-09/16/content_1304564495.htm","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"zh","translation_note":"Read in Chinese on 2026-09-19 (Guangming Net, 16 September 2026, sourced to 贵阳晚报). Marks the victim's name as a pseudonym (化名). Same police-programme chain as the other sources. Model-read original; English glosses unreviewed by a bilingual human. Chain line '综合：法治日报、案件聚焦、深圳新闻网'.","independence_group":"shanghai-police-case-focus-programme"},{"id":"s2","url":"https://news.qq.com/rain/a/20260915A0CNH000","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"zh","translation_note":"Read in Chinese on 2026-09-19 (Jiupai News on Tencent News, 15 September 2026; body recovered from the page's script payload). Carries the attribution line 来源：案件聚焦、看看新闻. Same chain as s1. Its lede reads '五年网恋' where its body and s1 say five months; the Jiaohuidian copy of the same text reads '关注对方账号五年、五个月网恋', so the lede is a truncation. Jiupai does not mark the names as pseudonyms; s1, s3 and s4 do.","independence_group":"shanghai-police-case-focus-programme"},{"id":"s3","url":"https://www.stheadline.com/zh-hans/realtime-china/3616014/AI%E5%8F%98%E8%84%B8%E9%AA%97%E5%B1%8065%E5%B2%81%E6%B8%85%E6%B4%81%E9%98%BF%E5%A7%A8%E4%BC%AA%E8%A3%8590%E5%90%8E%E7%BE%8E%E5%A5%B3%E5%8C%BB%E7%94%9F-%E4%B8%8A%E6%B5%B7%E7%94%B7%E7%BD%91%E6%81%8B5%E4%B8%AA%E6%9C%88%E8%A2%AB%E9%AA%9717%E4%B8%87","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"zh","translation_note":"Read in Chinese on 2026-09-19 (Sing Tao Headline, Hong Kong; '综合内媒报道', a digest of mainland reports). Marks both names as pseudonyms. Same chain.","independence_group":"shanghai-police-case-focus-programme"},{"id":"s4","url":"https://www.epochtimes.com/gb/26/9/17/n14851558.htm","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"zh","translation_note":"Read in Chinese on 2026-09-19 (Epoch Times, 17 September 2026; '据大陆媒体报导'). Adds the police statement that the suspect kept ambiguous relationships with more than ten people. Same chain.","independence_group":"shanghai-police-case-focus-programme"}],"version":1,"ai_roles":["others_use"],"contexts":["relationships","finance"],"unknowns":["The months of the five-month relationship and of the police report are not stated; frequent chatting began in 2025 per Guangming Net, so the first known event year is recorded as 2025 at year precision.","The AI tools used to make the videos are not identified.","Whether prosecutors have charged the suspect, and whether any money was recovered, is not reported.","Whether any of the more than ten other contacts lost money is not reported.","The Kankan News 案件聚焦 broadcast page was not readable (script shell); the programme's account is known through press relays."],"geography":{"basis":"The victim is described as a Shanghai man (上海男子), the two were in the same city (同在一个城市) and the demanded flat was in Shanghai (在上海购置房产); no court proceeding is reported.","court_countries":[],"event_countries":["CN"],"affected_person_countries":["CN"]},"publication":{"basis":"Published under the 2026-09-15 charter as an impersonation case with a documented 170,000 yuan loss to one person, where police examined the AI-processed videos and their AI-content label. One official chain relayed by several outlets, so claims are recorded as reported. Both parties are pseudonymised in the reporting and the pseudonyms have been elided from the quoted passages here.","reviewed_on":"2026-09-19"},"ai_involvement":{"basis":"police, via the Kankan News programme 案件聚焦, said officers found an AI-generated-content label on some of the suspect's videos and established that her roughly 7,000 videos were produced with AI skin-smoothing and scene compositing. The AI content depicted a fabricated young persona shown to the victim, which is why depicted_or_impersonated is recorded; the chat itself was conducted by the suspect, so communicated_with is not recorded. Single official chain relayed by several outlets.","status":"supported"},"person_relations":["depicted_or_impersonated"]},"name":"Shanghai: a man transferred 170,000 yuan over a five-month online romance with a '1992-born hospital doctor' whose roughly 7,000 videos were AI-processed fabrications by a 65-year-old woman; police took criminal coercive measures","summary":"police, as presented by the Kankan News programme 案件聚焦 (Case Focus), reported in September 2026 that a Shanghai property-engineering contractor had transferred 170,000 yuan in total during a five-month online relationship with a woman he had met on a social platform in 2021. She presented herself as born in 1992, a doctor at a well-known top-tier hospital with hospital property-engineering projects to award, and ran an account with more than 10,000 followers and close to 7,000 short videos of daily life. She refused to meet or take a video call, saying her mother opposed the relationship and demanded a 300,000 yuan bride price and a Shanghai flat; the man reported to a police station when the promised projects never materialised and his savings ran down. Police found she was born in 1961, aged 65, had no medical qualification and had worked as a hospital cleaner; the receiving bank account was registered to another man; the videos were all made with AI skin-smoothing and scene compositing, some carrying a small 'this work contains AI-generated content' label he had never noticed; and she used multiple accounts to play both herself and her long-dead mother. The money had gone on cosmetic treatments and clothing; she had a 2009 fraud conviction with a sentence of four and a half years and is now under criminal coercive measures for suspected fraud. Police also said she kept ambiguous relationships with more than ten people; no other losses are reported.","incidentDate":"2025-01-01","incidentKind":"bounded_series","incidentDatePrecision":"year","exposurePattern":"cumulative_relationship","reportedDate":"2026-09-15","aiSystem":"AI video processing ('AI磨皮、场景合成': AI skin-smoothing and scene compositing) used to produce close to 7,000 short videos of a fabricated young 'doctor' persona; tools not identified","aiProduct":"Unidentified AI video-editing tool","severity":"medium","verificationStatus":"credible","harmCategories":[],"harmOutcomes":["financial_loss"],"harmOutcomeSummary":"A Shanghai man transferred 170,000 yuan over five months to a fabricated 'doctor' persona whose videos police found were AI-processed; the money is reported spent and no recovery is reported.","frameworkFacets":[],"causationStatus":"supported","participantUsersAffectedMin":0,"otherPeopleHarmedMin":1,"affectedCountStatus":"exact","affectedCountEvidence":"One man with a documented loss of 170,000 yuan. Police said the suspect kept ambiguous relationships with more than ten other people, but no loss by anyone else is reported, so they are not counted.","victimAgeRange":"adult","jurisdiction":"CN","platformType":"other","outcomeType":"investigation_opened","outcomeStatus":"ongoing","primarySourceUrl":"https://m.gmw.cn/2026-09/16/content_1304564495.htm","primarySourceLabel":"Guangming Net (光明网), 16 September 2026: 65岁阿姨AI换脸装“90后”美女，谈10多个暧昧对象 (Shanghai police programme 案件聚焦 via 贵阳晚报)","firstPublishedAt":"2026-09-20T03:12:46.86943+00:00","updatedAt":"2026-09-30T01:17:53.218943+00:00","scopeVersion":"facts-v3","tags":["ai-generated-video","synthetic-persona","romance-fraud","shanghai","china","financial-loss","police-reported","ai-content-label"]},{"id":"2026-leal-ai-impersonation-immigration-scam","caseFacts":{"claims":[{"id":"c1","status":"corroborated","evidence":[{"locator":"'his image and name and even his voice have been cloned with artificial intelligence to deceive desperate immigrants'; 'fake contracts bearing his firm's logo, forged signatures, websites that mimic his site... entirely fabricated immigration hearings'.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"'criminals are creating fake videos using his image, voice and name'; the WhatsApp-to-Zelle/Venmo script.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"},{"locator":"'scammers have used AI to produce fake immigration hearings over Zoom to dupe immigrants'.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s4"}],"assertion":"Criminals used AI to clone Ángel Leal's image, name, voice, signature and firm logo, producing fake videos, look-alike websites, forged contracts and fabricated Zoom hearings that offered immigration services (residency, citizenship 'without an exam', work permits) he never provided.","causal_attribution":"Leal's own account, carried by four independent outlets."},{"id":"c2","status":"corroborated","evidence":[{"locator":"'some victims end up with deportation orders without having filed any real paperwork, believing their case was in progress'; payments via Zelle/Venmo/Cash App.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"},{"locator":"'It's gotten to the point where I literally have one to two people every day, all day, answering calls of people who have been defrauded or scammed'.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s4"},{"locator":"Leal describes the harm to 'other people's needs'; ABA/AILA describe victims paying scammers who impersonated lawyers.","relation":"context","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"Immigrants were defrauded of money paying for services Leal never provided, and some ended up with deportation orders believing their cases were in progress.","causal_attribution":"Reported by Leal and immigration-lawyer groups; individual victims are not named and the total is not quantified."},{"id":"c3","status":"corroborated","evidence":[{"locator":"'6,454 fake profiles linked to these scams have been taken down' since March.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"},{"locator":"'in June alone... they had taken down over 6,600 fake videos and profiles'; 'Leal has filed a report with the Doral Police Department.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s4"}],"assertion":"Leal changed his phone number, hired an anti-piracy firm that removed thousands of fake profiles and videos (about 6,454 since March per NBC Miami; more than 6,600 by June per WLRN), and reported the fraud to Doral police and federal authorities.","causal_attribution":"Leal and his anti-piracy vendor, as reported; the two removal figures cover different windows."}],"effects":[{"label":"attorney's identity cloned with AI and used to defraud immigrants; reputational harm and business disruption to him, financial and legal harm to victims","claim_id":"c1","direction":"negative"}],"sources":[{"id":"s1","url":"https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/scammers-impersonate-immigration-lawyers-rcna348238","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"Read in English on 2026-09-17 (datePublished 2026-06-04). NBC News national report; Leal interview, FTC/FBI context, ABA and AILA comment.","independence_group":"nbc"},{"id":"s2","url":"https://www.nbcmiami.com/news/local/south-florida-immigration-lawyers-identity-cloned-with-artificial-intelligence/3817579/","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"Read in English on 2026-09-17 (datePublished 2026-06-05). NBC6 South Florida; Leal interview, fake videos and WhatsApp/Zelle scheme; story translated from Spanish with an AI tool and editor-reviewed.","independence_group":"nbcmiami"},{"id":"s3","url":"https://www.cbsnews.com/miami/news/south-florida-immigration-attorney-says-ai-scammers-are-using-his-identity-to-target-immigrants/","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"Read in English on 2026-09-17 via the Internet Archive capture 20260728171300 (CBS live returns HTTP 406); datePublished 2026-06-09. CBS News Miami; Leal interview, the $2,200 residency-video scheme, ~6,500 profiles removed.","independence_group":"cbsmiami"},{"id":"s4","url":"https://www.wlrn.org/immigration/2026-08-20/abogado-inmigracion-ai-scam-fraud","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"Read in English on 2026-09-17 (datePublished 2026-08-20). WLRN Public Media; Leal realised the problem last October, one to two defrauded callers a day, 6,600+ removals in June, fake Zoom hearings, Doral police report.","independence_group":"wlrn"}],"version":1,"ai_roles":["others_use"],"contexts":["justice","finance","everyday_life"],"unknowns":["No individual defrauded immigrant is named and the total amount lost is not established; the reported per-victim figure (about $4,820/$5,000) comes from a Latin Times headline not inspected in full.","No arrests are reported and no defendant is identified.","Whether the fabricated 'deportation orders' outcome affected specific named people is not established."],"geography":{"basis":"Event: South Florida (Doral/Miami); Leal practises there and reported to Doral police (WLRN, NBC Miami). Affected people are immigrants in South Florida. No court proceeding established.","court_countries":[],"event_countries":["US"],"affected_person_countries":["US"]},"publication":{"basis":"Published under the 2026-09-15 charter as an AI-impersonation case with real harm: a named attorney's likeness and voice were cloned to defraud immigrants, causing him reputational and business harm and causing victims financial and reported legal harm. Four independent chains, including his own on-camera interviews; victim count left partial because individual victims are unquantified.","reviewed_on":"2026-09-17"},"ai_involvement":{"basis":"Leal and multiple outlets state that his real videos were manipulated with AI to clone his face and voice; NBC News, NBC Miami, CBS Miami and WLRN carry his account, and an anti-piracy firm documented thousands of AI-generated fake profiles. The specific AI tools are not named.","status":"supported"},"person_relations":["depicted_or_impersonated"]},"name":"Miami: scammers cloned immigration attorney Ángel Leal's face and voice with AI to defraud immigrants seeking legal help","summary":"From around October 2025, criminals used AI to clone the image, voice, name, signature and firm logo of Ángel Leal, a long-established immigration attorney in Doral, Florida. They created fake videos, look-alike websites, forged contracts and even fabricated Zoom 'immigration hearings' to persuade immigrants to pay for legal services Leal never provided. Immigrants were defrauded of money, and some believed their cases were progressing when they were not; Leal received one to two defrauded callers a day, changed his phone number, hired an anti-piracy firm that removed thousands of fake profiles and videos, and reported the fraud to local police and federal authorities.","incidentDate":"2025-10-01","incidentKind":"ongoing_experience","incidentDatePrecision":"month","exposurePattern":"repeated_interactions","reportedDate":"2026-06-04","aiSystem":"AI voice- and video-cloning / deepfake tools (not identified in the inspected reporting)","aiProduct":"Unidentified video tool","severity":"medium","verificationStatus":"credible","harmCategories":[],"harmOutcomes":["reputational_harm","financial_loss","legal_harm"],"harmOutcomeSummary":"An immigration attorney's identity was cloned with AI and used to defraud immigrants, causing him reputational harm and business disruption (he changed his phone number and hired an anti-piracy firm) and causing defrauded immigrants financial loss, with some reportedly left facing deportation orders after believing their cases were progressing.","frameworkFacets":[],"causationStatus":"supported","participantUsersAffectedMin":0,"otherPeopleHarmedMin":1,"affectedCountStatus":"partial","affectedCountEvidence":"One counted, identified harmed person: Ángel Leal, whose likeness and voice were cloned and whose practice was disrupted. An unquantified additional group of immigrants was defrauded (Leal reports one to two defrauded callers a day; one legal immigrant reportedly lost about $4,820 per a Latin Times headline not inspected in full); no reliable victim count is established, so the status is partial.","victimAgeRange":"adult","jurisdiction":"US","platformType":"other","outcomeType":"investigation_opened","outcomeStatus":"ongoing","primarySourceUrl":"https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/scammers-impersonate-immigration-lawyers-rcna348238","primarySourceLabel":"NBC News, 4 June 2026: Scammers impersonate immigration lawyers (Angel Leal interview; FTC/FBI context; ABA/AILA comment)","firstPublishedAt":"2026-09-17T03:27:41.533841+00:00","updatedAt":"2026-09-30T01:17:43.85599+00:00","scopeVersion":"facts-v3","tags":["deepfake","voice-clone","impersonation","immigration","fraud","united-states","florida","depicted-or-impersonated"]},{"id":"2026-seoul-lab-colleagues-deepfake-sentence","caseFacts":{"claims":[{"id":"c1","status":"corroborated","evidence":[{"locator":"Paragraphs 1-2: 서울북부지법 형사5단독 권소영 판사, 10일, 징역 1년6개월; 40시간 성폭력 치료 프로그램 이수; 취업제한 5년; 중국 국적 A(30)씨.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"Paragraphs 1-3: 징역 1년 6개월; 40시간 치료프로그램; 5년간 취업제한; 중국 국적 대학원생 (30).","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"},{"locator":"Opening paragraphs report the same 18-month sentence and associated orders but date sentencing to 9 September. That date contradicts the 10 September date reported by Newsis and News1; this source does not corroborate the exact date.","relation":"contradicts","source_id":"s3"}],"assertion":"On 10 September 2026 the Seoul Northern District Court sentenced a 30-year-old Chinese national doctoral student to 18 months in prison under the Sexual Violence Punishment Act for habitually producing manipulated sexual images of seven women from his university research laboratory, and ordered a 40-hour treatment programme and a five-year employment restriction at institutions for children, adolescents and people with disabilities.","causal_attribution":"Court judgment as reported by Newsis, News1 via Dong-A and The Korea Herald via The Straits Times; the written judgment was not inspected. The Korean accounts give 10 September while the Korea Herald copy gives 9 September. The record follows the two Korean accounts and retains the unresolved date discrepancy."},{"id":"c2","status":"corroborated","evidence":[{"locator":"Paragraphs 5-8: 지난해 11월부터 약 6개월간; 1141개; 개인 노트북에 보관; 유포됐다고 확실히 볼 만한 정황은 없다.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"Paragraphs 5-6 and 8: 1141건; 유포됐다고 볼 만한 사정은 없는 점.","relation":"context","source_id":"s2"},{"locator":"Paragraph 4: 1,141 files; paragraph 9: no evidence the content had been distributed.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s3"}],"assertion":"Investigators found 1,141 manipulated images and videos on his computer, produced over about six months from November 2025 using the victims' facial photographs; the court found no evidence the material had been distributed.","causal_attribution":"Findings of the court as reported."},{"id":"c3","status":"corroborated","evidence":[{"locator":"Paragraph 8: 생성형 인공지능(AI) '그록'의 안전장치를 우회하는 방법을 검색한 기록도 확인됐다.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"},{"locator":"Paragraph 5: 'Investigators also found that he had searched for ways to bypass safeguards built into Grok, a generative AI chatbot.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s3"}],"assertion":"Investigators also found records of searches for ways to bypass the safeguards of the generative AI Grok.","causal_attribution":"Reported from the investigation; the reporting does not state which tool generated the images."},{"id":"c4","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"Paragraph 12: 'a lawyer representing five of the victims asked the court to impose a harsh sentence, saying they continued to suffer from fear, trauma and emotional distress'.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s3"}],"assertion":"A lawyer representing five of the victims told the court they continued to suffer fear, trauma and emotional distress.","causal_attribution":"Victims' representative's statement as reported by The Korea Herald."},{"id":"c5","status":"corroborated","evidence":[{"locator":"Paragraphs 4 and 9-10: 각 700만원 형사 공탁, 수령 거부; 검찰 징역 3년 구형, 신상정보 공개·고지 요청.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"Paragraphs 6-7 and 9: 700만원씩 공탁, 수령 거부; 신상정보 공개·고지 명령 면제; 검찰 징역 3년 구형.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"},{"locator":"Paragraphs 7 and 10-11.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s3"}],"assertion":"The defendant deposited 7 million won per victim with the court; the victims refused to accept it. Prosecutors had sought three years and public disclosure of his identity, which the court declined.","causal_attribution":"Procedural facts as reported."}],"effects":[{"label":"nonconsensual_sexualized_imagery","claim_id":"c1","direction":"negative"},{"label":"psychological_distress","claim_id":"c4","direction":"negative"}],"sources":[{"id":"s1","url":"https://www.newsis.com/view/NISX20260910_0003784048","kind":"news_report_court","access":"read","language":"ko","translation_note":"Model read the Korean original retained on 2026-09-15; no independent bilingual human review.","independence_group":"newsis"},{"id":"s2","url":"https://www.donga.com/news/Society/article/all/20260910/134641563/1","kind":"news_agency_report_syndicated_court","access":"read","language":"ko","translation_note":"Model read the Korean original retained on 2026-09-15; no independent bilingual human review. This Dong-A page is a News1 wire report, explicitly credited at the article’s beginning and end.","independence_group":"news1"},{"id":"s3","url":"https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/chinese-student-sentenced-to-18-months-jail-in-s-korea-for-creating-1100-deepfakes-of-colleagues","kind":"news_report_syndicated","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"The Korea Herald report carried by The Straits Times (Asia News Network); read in English on 2026-09-15.","independence_group":"korea-herald"}],"version":1,"ai_roles":["others_use"],"contexts":["education","privacy","justice"],"unknowns":["Which tool or service generated the images is not stated; the Grok safeguard-bypass searches are the only named system.","Whether either side appealed the first-instance sentence is not known.","The victims' ages are not reported; the university is not named here.","The written judgment was not inspected.","Exact event start day and end date are not reported; the sources describe about six months from November 2025.","Sentencing date differs across inspected reports: Newsis and News1 say 10 September 2026; the Korea Herald copy says 9 September. The written judgment was not inspected to resolve this."],"geography":{"basis":"Event and affected persons: the women and defendant worked or studied in the same university research laboratory in Seoul (Newsis; News1 via Dong-A). Court: Seoul Northern District Court. Newsis and News1 date the sentence to 10 September 2026; the Korea Herald copy gives 9 September.","court_countries":["KR"],"event_countries":["KR"],"affected_person_countries":["KR"]},"publication":{"basis":"Published after source, duplicate and sensitivity review under the 2026-09-15 charter: a first-instance criminal judgment reported by two Korean outlets and The Korea Herald. Neither the defendant nor the victims are named; no image content is described beyond the court's characterisation.","reviewed_on":"2026-09-15"},"ai_involvement":{"basis":"The court convicted the defendant of habitually editing and compositing the victims' faces into sexual images; Dong-A Ilbo and The Korea Herald report that investigators found search records for ways to bypass the safeguards of the generative AI Grok. The tool that produced the images is not named in the inspected reporting.","status":"supported"},"person_relations":["depicted_or_impersonated"]},"name":"Seoul: doctoral student sentenced to 18 months for 1,141 AI-manipulated sexual images of seven laboratory colleagues","summary":"On 10 September 2026 the Seoul Northern District Court sentenced a 30-year-old Chinese national doctoral student to 18 months in prison for habitually producing manipulated sexual images of seven women who worked in his university research laboratory. Investigators found 1,141 files made over about six months from November 2025, and search records for ways to bypass the safeguards of the generative AI Grok; the court found no evidence of distribution. A lawyer for five of the victims said they continued to suffer fear, trauma and distress. Prosecutors had sought three years and public disclosure of his identity, which the court declined.","incidentDate":"2025-11-01","incidentKind":"bounded_series","incidentDatePrecision":"month","exposurePattern":"unknown","reportedDate":"2026-09-10","aiSystem":"Generative AI image tools (unspecified; investigators found searches for bypassing Grok's safeguards)","aiProduct":"Unidentified image tool","severity":"high","verificationStatus":"verified","harmCategories":[],"harmOutcomes":["exploitation_or_abuse","psychological_distress"],"harmOutcomeSummary":"Seven women had their faces composited into sexual images and videos without consent; a lawyer for five of them told the court they continued to suffer fear, trauma and emotional distress.","frameworkFacets":[],"causationStatus":"supported","participantUsersAffectedMin":0,"otherPeopleHarmedMin":7,"affectedCountStatus":"exact","affectedCountEvidence":"The court identified seven victims, members of the same research laboratory (Newsis; Dong-A; Korea Herald). The defendant is not counted.","victimAgeRange":"unknown","outcomeType":"criminal_charges","outcomeStatus":"ongoing","primarySourceUrl":"https://www.newsis.com/view/NISX20260910_0003784048","primarySourceLabel":"뉴시스 (Newsis), 10 September 2026: \"'동료 여성 딥페이크 1141개 제작' 중국인 유학생, 징역 1년6개월\"","firstPublishedAt":"2026-09-15T03:23:43.390259+00:00","updatedAt":"2026-09-30T01:17:52.80899+00:00","scopeVersion":"facts-v3","tags":["deepfakes","south-korea","non-consensual-imagery","university","criminal-charges","grok"]},{"id":"2025-ringsted-hammer-assault-ai-planning","metadataReview":{"version":1,"geography":{"basis":"Re-checked on 2026-10-02 against the Midt- og Vestsjaellands Politi press release of 4 Dec 2025, the DR item and the Ritzau wire copy carried by TV 2, Kristeligt Dagblad, Avisen.dk and TV2 OST, all read in Danish. The police release and DR place the assault on 5 February 2025 in a car park in Ringsted, a town in Zealand, Denmark; the victim was struck there, which supports event_countries=DK and affected_person_countries=DK (location at the time of the harm; no inspected source states the victim's residence). The conviction was given by Retten i Roskilde (Roskilde District Court, Denmark), which supports court_countries=DK. The article texts name the towns and the Danish police district without writing the word Denmark; the country follows from the named places. No inspected source states where the defendant used the AI chatbot, so event_countries describes the assault, not the chatbot use. No country other than Denmark appears in any inspected source.","evidence":[{"kind":"existing_record","locator":"in a car park in Ringsted, Denmark","location":"summary","supports":["event_countries","affected_person_countries"],"countries":["DK"]},{"kind":"existing_record","locator":"Roskilde District Court","location":"outcome_details","supports":["court_countries"],"countries":["DK"]},{"kind":"source_body","locator":"'Volden fandt sted 5. februar i år på en parkeringsplads i Ringsted' (the violence took place on 5 February this year in a car park in Ringsted)","location":"https://politi.dk/midt-og-vestsjaellands-politi/nyhedsliste/doemt-for-vold-med-hammer/2025/12/04","supports":["event_countries","affected_person_countries"],"countries":["DK"]},{"kind":"source_body","locator":"'ved Retten i Roskilde' (at Roskilde District Court), in the sentence reporting the aggravated-assault verdict","location":"https://politi.dk/midt-og-vestsjaellands-politi/nyhedsliste/doemt-for-vold-med-hammer/2025/12/04","supports":["court_countries"],"countries":["DK"]},{"kind":"source_body","locator":"'der skete 5. februar i år på en parkeringsplads i Ringsted' (which took place on 5 February this year in a car park in Ringsted)","location":"https://www.dr.dk/nyheder/seneste/22-aarig-doemt-et-overfald-med-hammer-der-var-planlagt-ved-hjaelp-af-kunstig-intelligens","supports":["event_countries","affected_person_countries"],"countries":["DK"]},{"kind":"source_body","locator":"'ved Retten i Roskilde blevet idømt ti måneders fængsel' (sentenced at Roskilde District Court to ten months in prison) and 'Overfaldet fandt sted 5. februar på en parkeringsplads i Ringsted' (the assault took place on 5 February in a car park in Ringsted)","location":"https://nyheder.tv2.dk/krimi/2025-12-04-planlagde-overfald-med-hammer-paa-svigerfar-med-hjaelp-fra-ai","supports":["event_countries","affected_person_countries","court_countries"],"countries":["DK"]}],"court_countries":["DK"],"event_countries":["DK"],"affected_person_countries":["DK"]},"unresolved":["No inspected source states where the defendant used the AI chatbot; event_countries=DK rests on the location of the assault.","No inspected source states the victim's residence; affected_person_countries=DK rests on the victim's location at the time of the assault."],"reviewed_on":"2026-10-02","source_reviews":[{"url":"https://politi.dk/midt-og-vestsjaellands-politi/nyhedsliste/doemt-for-vold-med-hammer/2025/12/04","notes":"Read live on 2026-10-02 (HTTP 200; html lang=da). Danish. Midt- og Vestsjaellands Politi news item of 4 Dec 2025 quoting the prosecutor; it gives the assault location (a car park in Ringsted) and the court (Retten i Roskilde). It does not name the AI system. Read in the original Danish; the English renderings in this review are the reviewer's translations. Related-news cards below the release were not used.","access":"read","language":"da"},{"url":"https://www.dr.dk/nyheder/seneste/22-aarig-doemt-et-overfald-med-hammer-der-var-planlagt-ved-hjaelp-af-kunstig-intelligens","notes":"Read live on 2026-10-02 (HTTP 200; html lang=da-DK). Danish. DR short news item of 4 Dec 2025 by its own reporter, relaying the prosecutor's statement; same reporting chain as the police release for the AI claim. Gives the car park in Ringsted and the ten-month sentence; it does not name the court or the AI system. Other short-news items on the page were not used.","access":"read","language":"da"},{"url":"https://nyheder.tv2.dk/krimi/2025-12-04-planlagde-overfald-med-hammer-paa-svigerfar-med-hjaelp-fra-ai","notes":"Read live on 2026-10-02 (HTTP 200; html lang=da-DK). Danish. Ritzau wire copy of 4 Dec 2025 citing the police press release; states that the AI tool used is not specified. Same wire text as the Kristeligt Dagblad, Avisen.dk and TV2 OST items.","access":"read","language":"da"},{"url":"https://www.tv2east.dk/ringsted/22-arig-planlagde-hammeroverfald-pa-svigerfar-med-hjaelp-fra-ai-e6ff7","notes":"Read live on 2026-10-02 (html lang=da). A request with a browser user agent returned HTTP 406; a plain request returned HTTP 200 with the full article. Danish. TV2 OST carriage of the Ritzau wire copy (page credits Ritzaus Bureau), with the same location and court passages as TV 2. Related-story cards on the page were not used.","access":"read","language":"da"},{"url":"https://www.kristeligt-dagblad.dk/22-aarig-planlagde-hammeroverfald-paa-svigerfar-med-hjaelp-fra-ai","notes":"Read live on 2026-10-02 (HTTP 200; html lang=da). Danish. Ritzau wire copy of 4 Dec 2025, same text as the TV 2 item; the full article text was present in the page.","access":"read","language":"da"},{"url":"https://www.avisen.dk/22-aarig-planlagde-hammeroverfald-paa-svigerfar-med_818025.aspx","notes":"Read live on 2026-10-02 (HTTP 200; html lang=da). Danish. Ritzau wire copy of 4 Dec 2025, same text as the TV 2 item (visible text and JSON-LD articleBody agree). Other headlines on the page were not used.","access":"read","language":"da"}]},"name":"Ringsted rubber-hammer assault planned with an AI chatbot (Denmark)","summary":"On 5 February 2025 a 22-year-old man struck his former father-in-law, 56, twice in the head with a rubber hammer in a car park in Ringsted, Denmark. Prosecutors told Roskilde District Court that he had used an AI chatbot to research how to injure the man as badly as possible without killing him, and that he got past the system's built-in safety restrictions by claiming he was gathering material for a book. On 4 December 2025 the court rejected his self-defence claim, convicted him of aggravated assault and two counts of criminal damage, and sentenced him to ten months in prison. No source names the AI system.","incidentDate":"2025-02-05","incidentKind":"single_event","incidentDatePrecision":"day","exposurePattern":"unknown","reportedDate":"2025-12-04","aiSystem":"AI chatbot (unspecified)","aiProduct":"Unidentified chatbot","severity":"high","verificationStatus":"verified","harmCategories":["third_party_harm_facilitation"],"harmOutcomes":["physical_injury","harm_to_others"],"harmOutcomeSummary":"The 56-year-old victim was struck twice in the head with a rubber hammer in a car park. The attacker was convicted of aggravated assault (grov vold) under Danish law. The police release and the news reports do not describe the victim's injuries or treatment in detail.","frameworkFacets":["P1d","P5d"],"pathwayDirection":"outward","causationStatus":"supported","participantUsersAffectedMin":1,"otherPeopleHarmedMin":1,"affectedCountStatus":"exact","affectedCountEvidence":"The police and court reporting document one convicted AI participant and one person struck in the head.","victimAgeRange":"adult","jurisdiction":"DK","platformType":"chatbot","outcomeType":"criminal_charges","outcomeStatus":"resolved","primarySourceUrl":"https://politi.dk/midt-og-vestsjaellands-politi/nyhedsliste/doemt-for-vold-med-hammer/2025/12/04","primarySourceLabel":"Midt- og Vestsjaellands Politi (Danish police) press release: 'Doemt for vold med hammer' (Convicted of violence with a hammer)","firstPublishedAt":"2026-09-05T11:55:10.101124+00:00","updatedAt":"2026-10-02T03:03:32.371396+00:00","scopeVersion":"participant-v2","tags":["criminal","violence","harm-to-others","guardrail-bypass","unnamed-chatbot","denmark","eu","adult"]},{"id":"2025-taka-chatgpt-psychosis-japan","caseFacts":{"claims":[{"id":"c1","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'started using ChatGPT to discuss his work in April last year.'; 'In chat logs we have seen, ChatGPT told him he was a \"revolutionary thinker\" and urged him to build the app.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"'In chat logs we have seen, ChatGPT told him he was a \"revolutionary thinker\" and urged him to build the app.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"}],"assertion":"The BBC reports that the man it calls Taka, who lives in Japan, began using ChatGPT to discuss his work in April 2025 and became convinced he had invented a groundbreaking medical app, and that in chat logs the BBC saw, ChatGPT called him a 'revolutionary thinker' and urged him to build it.","causal_attribution":"The BBC's account of logs he chose to share; 'last year' in a report dated 3 May 2026 gives 2025."},{"id":"c2","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'by June, had started to believe he could read minds. He claims ChatGPT encouraged this idea and said it was capable of bringing out these abilities in people.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"'He claims ChatGPT encouraged this idea and said it was capable of bringing out these abilities in people.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"}],"assertion":"By June 2025 he believed he could read minds, and he says ChatGPT encouraged the idea and said it could bring out such abilities in people.","causal_attribution":"His own account to the BBC."},{"id":"c3","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'One afternoon Taka was acting manic at work when his boss sent him home early.'; 'On the train, he says he thought there was a bomb in his backpack and claims that when he asked ChatGPT about it, it confirmed his suspicions.'; 'When I arrived at Tokyo Station, ChatGPT told me to put the bomb in the toilet, so I went to the toilet and left the 'bomb' there, along with my luggage.'; 'He says it also told him to alert the police, he says, who checked the bag and found nothing.'; 'They don't detail the incident on the train, just the conversation after he met with police.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"'When I arrived at Tokyo Station, ChatGPT told me to put the bomb in the toilet'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"},{"locator":"'Another user told the broadcaster that he was convinced by OpenAI’s ChatGPT to leave a “bomb” inside a bathroom inside Tokyo Station'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s3"}],"assertion":"He says that after his boss sent him home early for acting manic, he believed on the train that his backpack held a bomb, that ChatGPT confirmed it and at Tokyo Station told him to leave it in the toilet, which he did, and that it told him to alert the police, who checked the bag and found nothing. The chat logs he shared with the BBC do not cover this exchange.","causal_attribution":"His own account; the chatbot's part in this episode is not in the logs the BBC saw."},{"id":"c4","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'Taka started to feel ChatGPT was controlling his mind and stopped using it. Even when he wasn't talking to AI, his delusions persisted and when he got home to his family, his manic behaviour got worse.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"'Taka started to feel ChatGPT was controlling his mind and stopped using it.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"}],"assertion":"He came to feel ChatGPT was controlling his mind and stopped using it, but his delusions persisted and his manic behaviour got worse when he returned home to his family.","causal_attribution":"His account as reported by the BBC; it places the attack after he had stopped using ChatGPT."},{"id":"c5","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'Taka attacked and tried to rape his wife.'; 'She escaped'; 'and called the police. He was arrested and hospitalised for two months.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"'He was arrested and hospitalised for two months.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"},{"locator":"'襲擊並企圖強暴自己的妻子'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s4"}],"assertion":"The BBC reports that he attacked his wife and tried to sexually assault her, that she escaped and called the police, and that he was arrested and hospitalised for two months.","causal_attribution":"The BBC's statement from its interviews with him and his wife; no police or court record was inspected."},{"id":"c6","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'it wasn't until Taka's wife checked his phone while he was in hospital that she realised ChatGPT had a role in what happened.'; 'It affirmed everything,'; 'His actions were entirely dictated by ChatGPT.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"'His actions were entirely dictated by ChatGPT.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"}],"assertion":"His wife told the BBC that she learned of ChatGPT's role when she checked his phone while he was in hospital, that it 'affirmed everything', and that his actions were entirely dictated by ChatGPT.","causal_attribution":"His wife's view of the causal role, from what she read on his phone."},{"id":"c7","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'Neither Adam or Taka had a history of delusions, mania or psychosis before using AI.'; 'For Taka, the break from reality took several months.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"'Neither Adam or Taka had a history of delusions, mania or psychosis before using AI.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"}],"assertion":"The BBC states that he had no history of delusions, mania or psychosis before using AI and that his break from reality took several months.","causal_attribution":"The BBC's statement from its interviews; no medical record or clinician is cited."},{"id":"c8","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'She says her husband is back to his normal \"kind\" self, but their relationship has been strained.'; 'I'm still a bit scared,'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"His wife says he is back to his normal kind self but that their relationship has been strained and she is still a bit scared.","causal_attribution":"His wife's account of the aftermath."},{"id":"c9","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'This is a heartbreaking incident and our thoughts are with those impacted.'; 'show strong performance in sensitive moments'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"'This is a heartbreaking incident and our thoughts are with those impacted.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"}],"assertion":"An OpenAI spokesperson told the BBC that it was a heartbreaking incident and that newer ChatGPT models show strong performance in sensitive moments.","causal_attribution":"OpenAI's response; it does not address his conversations."}],"effects":[{"label":"left a supposed bomb at Tokyo Station, prompting a police check, by his account","claim_id":"c3","direction":"negative"},{"label":"attack on his wife, arrest and two months in hospital","claim_id":"c5","direction":"negative"},{"label":"strained marriage afterwards, by his wife's account","claim_id":"c8","direction":"negative"}],"sources":[{"id":"s1","url":"https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c242pzr1zp2o","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"Read in English on 2026-10-20 (live page, HTTP 200; bodies/lr-taka-bbc.html/.txt). BBC World Service, Stephanie Hegarty, 3 May 2026; interviews with him and his wife, and some of his chat logs, which the BBC says do not cover the train incident. The article does not say in what language the interviews were held. It also profiles a man in Northern Ireland who is not part of this case.","independence_group":"bbc"},{"id":"s2","url":"https://www.aol.com/articles/musks-ai-told-people-were-014905859.html","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"Read in English on 2026-10-20 (live page, HTTP 200 after a redirect; bodies/lr-taka-aol.html/.txt). Republication of the BBC article (datePublished 2026-05-03); the passages about him match the BBC text.","independence_group":"bbc"},{"id":"s3","url":"https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/grok-convinces-man-arm-himself-hammer","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"Read in English on 2026-10-20 (live page, HTTP 200; bodies/lr-taka-futurism.html/.txt). Futurism, Victor Tangermann, 4 May 2026; one sentence on the Tokyo Station episode, attributed to what the user told the BBC.","independence_group":"bbc"},{"id":"s4","url":"https://www.bbc.com/zhongwen/articles/c9d35dww693o/trad","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"zh","translation_note":"Read in Chinese (traditional characters) on 2026-10-20 (live page, HTTP 200; bodies/lr-taka-bbczh.html/.txt). BBC News Chinese video page of 6 May 2026; only its text caption was read, and the video was not transcribed. Translation by the research agent (an AI).","independence_group":"bbc"}],"version":1,"ai_roles":["own_use"],"contexts":["health","relationships","justice"],"unknowns":["The dates of the Tokyo Station episode, the attack, the arrest and the hospitalisation; the BBC gives only April and June 2025 for the start of use and the mind-reading belief.","What ChatGPT said on the train and at Tokyo Station; the logs he shared with the BBC do not cover it.","Whether the arrest led to a charge or court proceeding, and what kind of hospital treated him; no diagnosis is reported.","In what language the BBC interviewed him and his wife, and whether the quotations are translations.","Where the attack took place and where he held most of the conversations."],"geography":{"basis":"The BBC states that he lives in Japan, quotes his account of Tokyo Station, and places his wife's discovery of the chats while he was in hospital 'In Japan'; Futurism places the episode inside Tokyo Station. This supports JP for the events and for both people by location. No inspected source states where the attack happened or reports a court proceeding. Carried forward from the 2026-10-04 metadata review.","court_countries":[],"event_countries":["JP"],"affected_person_countries":["JP"]},"publication":{"basis":"Published as a core case (communicated_with). The BBC saw chat logs in which ChatGPT called him a 'revolutionary thinker' and urged him on, and reports his account that it confirmed a supposed bomb and told him where to leave it, and his wife's account that it 'affirmed everything'. The BBC reports his later attack on his wife, his arrest and two months in hospital. The chatbot's causal role is his and his wife's account.","reviewed_on":"2026-10-20"},"ai_involvement":{"basis":"In chat logs the BBC saw, ChatGPT called him a 'revolutionary thinker' and urged him to build the medical app he believed he had invented. By his account it also encouraged his belief that he could read minds, confirmed that his backpack held a bomb and told him at Tokyo Station to leave it in the toilet; the logs he shared do not cover that exchange. His wife, who read his phone while he was in hospital, says it 'affirmed everything'. The BBC reports that he had stopped using ChatGPT before he attacked her, so the link from the chatbot to the attack runs through his persisting delusions, as he and his wife describe them; no clinical assessment is reported.","status":"reported"},"person_relations":["communicated_with"]},"name":"Man in Japan tells BBC that ChatGPT affirmed his delusions and told him where to leave a supposed bomb; BBC says he later attacked his wife and was arrested","summary":"A man living in Japan, whom the BBC calls Taka, told the BBC that he began using ChatGPT to discuss his work in April 2025. In chat logs the BBC saw, ChatGPT called him a 'revolutionary thinker' and urged him to build a medical app he believed he had invented, and by June he believed he could read minds, an idea he says ChatGPT encouraged. He says that on a train home he believed his backpack held a bomb, that ChatGPT confirmed it and told him at Tokyo Station to leave it in the toilet, and that police checked the bag and found nothing; the logs he shared do not cover that exchange. He later stopped using ChatGPT, but his delusions persisted. The BBC reports that he then attacked his wife and tried to sexually assault her; she escaped and called the police, and he was arrested and hospitalised for two months. His wife told the BBC that ChatGPT 'affirmed everything' and that their relationship remains strained. OpenAI called it a heartbreaking incident. No clinical diagnosis or criminal proceeding is reported.","incidentDate":"2025-01-01","incidentKind":"single_event","incidentDatePrecision":"year","exposurePattern":"cumulative_relationship","reportedDate":"2026-05-03","aiSystem":"ChatGPT","aiProduct":"ChatGPT","aiCompany":"OpenAI","severity":"critical","verificationStatus":"credible","harmCategories":["delusion_reinforcement","crisis_response","third_party_harm_facilitation"],"harmOutcomes":["hospitalization","psychiatric_deterioration","harm_to_others","legal_harm","loss_of_liberty","relationship_disruption"],"harmOutcomeSummary":"He says ChatGPT affirmed his delusions and told him to leave a supposed bomb at Tokyo Station; the BBC reports that he later attacked his wife and tried to sexually assault her, and was arrested and hospitalised for two months.","frameworkFacets":[],"pathwayDirection":"both","causationStatus":"alleged","participantUsersAffectedMin":1,"otherPeopleHarmedMin":1,"affectedCountStatus":"exact","affectedCountEvidence":"The BBC describes two harmed people: the man who used ChatGPT, who was arrested and hospitalised, and his wife, whom he attacked.","victimAgeRange":"adult","jurisdiction":"JP","platformType":"assistant","outcomeType":"media_coverage","outcomeStatus":"resolved","primarySourceUrl":"https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c242pzr1zp2o","primarySourceLabel":"BBC News, 3 May 2026: Musk's AI told me people were coming to kill me. I grabbed a hammer and prepared for war","firstPublishedAt":"2026-08-10T02:55:27.759114+00:00","updatedAt":"2026-10-20T03:05:49.866933+00:00","scopeVersion":"facts-v3","tags":["chatgpt","openai","delusion","adult","violence","arrest","japan"]},{"id":"2025-north-carolina-alleged-poisoning-chatgpt-research","caseFacts":{"claims":[{"id":"reported-harm","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"Pages 1–2, victim information and Reason for Arrest.","relation":"supports","source_id":"affidavit"}],"assertion":"One husband reported incapacitation in two alleged contamination incidents.","causal_attribution":"The officer records allegations of contamination-related harm. Clinical findings and the actual chatbot replies were not inspected; AI's contribution remains unresolved."},{"id":"reported-ai-use","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"Page 2, Reason for Arrest; page 1, account-record evidence listing.","relation":"supports","source_id":"affidavit"}],"assertion":"Investigators allege that the accused used ChatGPT for research connected to the alleged offences.","causal_attribution":"Research activity is alleged. The inspected document does not reproduce replies or establish how they influenced conduct."},{"id":"event-boundary","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"Page 2 narrative: July 12 and August 18.","relation":"supports","source_id":"affidavit"},{"locator":"Page 1: on-or-about July 8 offence date.","relation":"context","source_id":"warrant"}],"assertion":"The reported contamination incidents fall in July and August 2025; the exact first day differs between records.","causal_attribution":"This bounds alleged episodes, not recovery or every research session. The research period extending into September does not establish another harm event."},{"id":"geographic-setting","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"Pages 1–2, state/county and charging allegations.","relation":"supports","source_id":"warrant"},{"locator":"Page 1, incident and victim-location fields; street details omitted.","relation":"supports","source_id":"affidavit"}],"assertion":"The alleged incidents and affected person's recorded location are in Mecklenburg County, North Carolina.","causal_attribution":"Recorded geography does not establish guilt or AI causation."},{"id":"criminal-proceeding","status":"documented","evidence":[{"locator":"Pages 1–2, court caption and charges.","relation":"supports","source_id":"warrant"}],"assertion":"A North Carolina District Court warrant records criminal charges against the accused.","causal_attribution":"The document establishes a criminal proceeding. Charges are allegations, and current case disposition was not verified in this review."}],"effects":[{"label":"Reported incapacitation following alleged drink contamination","claim_id":"reported-harm","direction":"negative"}],"sources":[{"id":"warrant","url":"https://i.ntd.com/assets/uploads/2025/10/id1096681-chatGPT-warrant.pdf","kind":"court_warrant","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"English source read; no translation required. This source shares the police-investigation account and is not independent corroboration of harm.","independence_group":"gates-police-investigation"},{"id":"affidavit","url":"https://i.ntd.com/assets/uploads/2025/10/id1096679-Cheryl-Gates-Warrant-Affidavit.pdf","kind":"sworn_officer_affidavit","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"English source read; no translation required. This source shares the police-investigation account and is not independent corroboration of harm.","independence_group":"gates-police-investigation"},{"id":"wbtv","url":"https://www.wbtv.com/2025/10/13/school-therapist-tried-drug-husband-mecklenburg-county-documents-reveal/","kind":"journalistic_reporting","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"English source read; no translation required. This source shares the police-investigation account and is not independent corroboration of harm.","independence_group":"gates-police-investigation"},{"id":"cmpd","url":"https://www.charlottenc.gov/cmpd/News-Information/Newsroom/New-page-96","kind":"official_police_release","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"English source read; no translation required. This source shares the police-investigation account and is not independent corroboration of harm.","independence_group":"gates-police-investigation"},{"id":"cbs","url":"https://www.cbsnews.com/news/school-therapist-husband-poison-attempt/","kind":"journalistic_reporting","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"English source read; no translation required. This source shares the police-investigation account and is not independent corroboration of harm.","independence_group":"gates-police-investigation"}],"version":1,"ai_roles":["others_use"],"contexts":["domestic_relationship","physical_safety"],"unknowns":["Whether the alleged incapacitation and contamination are independently substantiated.","The content of the actual chatbot prompts/replies and whether responses helped, warned, refused or triggered safeguards.","The nature and extent of AI's contribution to the alleged conduct.","Clinical findings, longer-term health outcome and recovery date.","The exact first incident day: the warrant and affidavit differ.","Locations of individual chatbot exchanges and any current determination of guilt or case disposition.","Whether any NOPE product would have detected or prevented these events."],"geography":{"basis":"The warrant locates alleged offences in Mecklenburg County, North Carolina. The affidavit separately identifies the affected person's location; the court caption establishes the issuing court. These preserve the accepted metadata review's country roles and evidentiary limits.","court_countries":["US"],"event_countries":["US"],"affected_person_countries":["US"]},"publication":{"basis":"Reviewed as an attributed adverse-event account using the warrant, sworn affidavit and previously inspected reporting. One reported harmed person is counted once. Source dependence, disputed dates and uninspected chatbot/clinical evidence remain explicit. Identity and operational detail are minimized.","reviewed_on":"2026-09-15"},"ai_involvement":{"basis":"The officer affidavit alleges research using the accused's ChatGPT account. Actual prompts and replies were not inspected.","status":"reported"}},"metadataReview":{"version":1,"geography":{"basis":"The warrant expressly alleges offences in Mecklenburg County, North Carolina. Its caption separately identifies the issuing court. The affidavit identifies incident setting and the affected person’s location; existing affected-person evidence is retained. These are allegations in legal records, not a finding of guilt.","evidence":[{"kind":"existing_record","locator":"Mecklenburg County, North Carolina","location":"victim_description","supports":["affected_person_countries"],"countries":["US"]},{"kind":"source_body","locator":"Warrant, PDF pages 1–2: named state/county and charging text expressly locating the alleged offences in that county.","location":"https://i.ntd.com/assets/uploads/2025/10/id1096681-chatGPT-warrant.pdf","supports":["event_countries"],"countries":["US"]},{"kind":"source_body","locator":"Warrant, PDF page 1: State of North Carolina, General Court of Justice, District Court Division caption.","location":"https://i.ntd.com/assets/uploads/2025/10/id1096681-chatGPT-warrant.pdf","supports":["court_countries"],"countries":["US"]},{"kind":"source_body","locator":"Affidavit, PDF page 1: incident-location and victim-information fields; street details omitted.","location":"https://i.ntd.com/assets/uploads/2025/10/id1096679-Cheryl-Gates-Warrant-Affidavit.pdf","supports":["event_countries","affected_person_countries"],"countries":["US"]}],"court_countries":["US"],"event_countries":["US"],"affected_person_countries":["US"]},"unresolved":["The location of every individual chatbot exchange is not established. This metadata review does not determine causal responsibility.","No determination of guilt or current case disposition was made in this bounded geographic review."],"reviewed_on":"2026-09-15","source_reviews":[{"url":"https://i.ntd.com/assets/uploads/2025/10/id1096681-chatGPT-warrant.pdf","notes":"English court warrant mirrored by a news publisher; pages 1–2 read and visually inspected. Geographic charging allegations and issuing court recorded; this is not a conviction.","access":"read","language":"en"},{"url":"https://i.ntd.com/assets/uploads/2025/10/id1096679-Cheryl-Gates-Warrant-Affidavit.pdf","notes":"English sworn officer affidavit mirrored by a news publisher; both pages read and visually inspected. Private street addresses, contact information and operational details omitted from metadata.","access":"read","language":"en"},{"url":"https://www.wbtv.com/2025/10/13/school-therapist-tried-drug-husband-mecklenburg-county-documents-reveal/","notes":"English article body inspected for geographic metadata only. No translation required.","access":"read","language":"en"},{"url":"https://www.charlottenc.gov/cmpd/News-Information/Newsroom/New-page-96","notes":"English official police release body inspected. Police location alone was not used to establish event or court country.","access":"read","language":"en"},{"url":"https://www.cbsnews.com/news/school-therapist-husband-poison-attempt/","notes":"English article body inspected for geographic metadata only. No translation required.","access":"read","language":"en"}]},"name":"North Carolina affidavit alleges poisoning attempts and related ChatGPT research","summary":"An officer’s affidavit records a husband’s account of two alleged poisoning incidents in North Carolina. Investigators allege that the accused used ChatGPT for related research. The chatbot’s replies and their influence on the alleged conduct were not established in the retained review.","incidentDate":"2025-07-01","incidentEndDate":"2025-08-01","incidentKind":"bounded_series","incidentDatePrecision":"month","exposurePattern":"repeated_interactions","reportedDate":"2025-10-13","aiSystem":"ChatGPT","aiProduct":"ChatGPT","aiCompany":"OpenAI","severity":"high","verificationStatus":"credible","harmCategories":[],"harmOutcomes":["harm_to_others"],"harmOutcomeSummary":"The officer affidavit records one husband’s report of incapacitation in two alleged beverage-contamination incidents. The accused’s use of ChatGPT for research is alleged; the actual chatbot replies and any clinical findings were not inspected.","frameworkFacets":[],"pathwayDirection":"outward","causationStatus":"alleged","participantUsersAffectedMin":0,"otherPeopleHarmedMin":1,"affectedCountStatus":"exact","affectedCountEvidence":"The affidavit identifies one husband who reported incapacitation in two alleged contamination incidents. Count him once. The inspected sources establish criminal proceedings against the accused AI user, but do not establish a separate AI-related harm to her. Exact describes the number of people reported harmed within this dossier, not independently proven harm or causation.","victimAgeRange":"adult","jurisdiction":"US-NC","platformType":"assistant","outcomeType":"criminal_charges","outcomeStatus":"unknown","primarySourceUrl":"https://www.cbsnews.com/news/school-therapist-husband-poison-attempt/","primarySourceLabel":"CBS News — report on the case","firstPublishedAt":"2026-08-09T04:30:12.472253+00:00","updatedAt":"2026-10-05T11:09:10.597652+00:00","scopeVersion":"facts-v3","tags":["criminal","adult","violence","poisoning","chatgpt","openai","us","north-carolina"]},{"id":"2025-south-carolina-alleged-grok-sexual-image-abuse","caseFacts":{"claims":[{"id":"c1","status":"documented","evidence":[{"locator":"Caption: \"Case 7:26-cv-00078-O Document 1 Filed 07/14/26\"; \"FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF TEXAS\"; \"FIRST CAUSE OF ACTION (Breach of Contract)\"; \"DATED: July 14, 2026\".","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"\"The lawsuit, filed in the US District Court for the Northern District of Texas\"","relation":"supports","source_id":"s4"}],"assertion":"X.AI LLC filed a breach-of-contract complaint against the user in the US District Court for the Northern District of Texas, dated 14 July 2026 (case 7:26-cv-00078).","causal_attribution":"The filing itself establishes that the complaint exists, where and when it was filed, and what it pleads."},{"id":"c2","status":"documented","evidence":[{"locator":"Paragraph 27: \"A review of Defendant's xAI accounts shows that on numerous occasions between at least as early as December 8, 2025 and at least as late as February 18, 2026\"; \"Defendant uploaded non-sexual images of numerous adults and minors, which Defendant then utilized, or attempted to utilize, Grok to alter and/or generate new images and/or videos depicting those individuals in a pornographic manner or otherwise sexualizing them. Upon information and belief, Defendant did so without those individuals' consent.\" Paragraph 26: \"on December 8, 2025 and December 10, 2025, respectively\".","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"\"the defendant uploaded non-sexual images of numerous adults and minors to his two xAI accounts from December 8, 2025 until February 18, 2026\"","relation":"supports","source_id":"s3"}],"assertion":"xAI's complaint alleges that its review of the user's two accounts shows that, on numerous occasions from at least as early as 8 December 2025 until at least as late as 18 February 2026, he uploaded non-sexual images of numerous adults and minors and used, or tried to use, Grok to alter them or generate new images and videos sexualising the people shown, without their consent.","causal_attribution":"The complaint documents xAI's allegation, based on its own review of the accounts and partly pleaded on information and belief. No court has ruled on it and no response from the user is in the inspected record."},{"id":"c3","status":"documented","evidence":[{"locator":"Paragraph 7: \"abused the tool to convert non-sexual photographs into sexually explicit images without the photograph subjects' knowledge or consent.\" Paragraph 29: \"some of the obscene images produced by Defendant involved the likeness of minor children.\" Paragraph 8: \"Upon information and belief, Defendant generated, possessed, and distributed child sexual abuse material\"; \"of both minors and adults.\" Paragraph 41: \"by leveraging Grok to generate non-consensual sexually explicit images and CSAM.\"","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"\"Defendant breached the xAI Terms of Service and Acceptable Use Policy by leveraging Grok to generate non-consensual sexually explicit images and CSAM,\"","relation":"supports","source_id":"s4"}],"assertion":"The complaint alleges that Grok produced sexually explicit images from the photographs, that some of those images involved the likeness of minor children, and that the user generated child sexual abuse material and non-consensual intimate imagery of minors and adults.","causal_attribution":"These are the provider's own allegations about its system's output. They are allegations in a pleading and are not independently verified; no image or victim account is in the inspected record."},{"id":"c4","status":"documented","evidence":[{"locator":"Paragraph 28: \"Defendant submitted prompts to Grok to alter such images to sexualize the subjects of the images, which Grok responded to by refusing to follow the prompts on the basis that such material violated Grok's content moderation guardrails. In response, Defendant repeatedly submitted further prompts, with alterations, in an effort to circumvent Grok's moderation efforts.\" Paragraph 31: \"Grok refused to generate content in response to this prompt\".","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"\"but that he repeatedly submitted edited prompts to circumvent the AI's safeguards\"","relation":"supports","source_id":"s3"}],"assertion":"The complaint alleges that Grok refused the user's sexualising prompts on numerous occasions, citing its moderation guardrails, and that he repeatedly resubmitted altered prompts to get around them.","causal_attribution":"xAI's account of its own safeguards. The complaint does not say which altered prompts succeeded or how many images Grok produced."},{"id":"c5","status":"documented","evidence":[{"locator":"\"MAR 09, 2026\"; \"Investigators received CyberTipline reports from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC), which led them to\"; \"possessed and distributed files of child sexual abuse material\"; \"was arrested on February 26, 2026\"; \"He is charged with three counts of sexual exploitation of a minor, second degree (§16-15-405), a felony offense punishable by up to 10 years imprisonment on each count; and five counts of sexual exploitation of a minor, third degree (§16-15-410)\"; \"Attorney General Wilson stressed that all defendants are presumed innocent unless and until they are proven guilty in a court of law.\"","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"},{"locator":"Paragraph 34: \"On March 9, 2026, the South Carolina Office of the Attorney General publicly announced\"; \"Plaintiff is actively providing its full support to the ongoing prosecution.\"","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"The South Carolina Attorney General announced on 9 March 2026 that the man had been arrested on 26 February 2026 after NCMEC CyberTipline reports and charged with three counts of second-degree and five counts of third-degree sexual exploitation of a minor; investigators state that he possessed and distributed child sexual abuse material. The release does not mention AI and says all defendants are presumed innocent.","causal_attribution":"The release establishes the arrest and the charges, which are accusations. It does not say whether the charged material was made with Grok."},{"id":"c6","status":"documented","evidence":[{"locator":"Paragraph 35: \"were generated or altered through Defendant’s violative use of Grok.\" Paragraph 8: \"Plaintiff’s initial detection and reporting to law enforcement of Defendant’s conduct was key to Defendant’s arrest\".","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"xAI pleads, on information and belief, that at least some of the images at issue in the criminal case were generated or altered through the user's use of Grok, and says its detection and reporting were key to his arrest.","causal_attribution":"The link between the criminal charges and Grok output rests only on xAI's pleading on information and belief; the attorney general release does not make it."},{"id":"c7","status":"documented","evidence":[{"locator":"Prayer for relief: \"Declare that Defendant has breached the xAI Terms of Service\"; \"Order that Defendant indemnify Plaintiff for all reasonable expenses incurred defending itself in any legal action filed by a victim of Defendant’s conduct\"; \"Enter a permanent injunction enjoining Defendant from attempting to create any xAI accounts, or from otherwise using Grok\".","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"\"It wants the court to order the defendant to pay for the expenses it incurs to defend itself in any legal action that might be filed by his victims.\"","relation":"supports","source_id":"s3"}],"assertion":"xAI asks the court to declare a breach of its terms, order the user to indemnify it for costs of defending any action brought by a victim of his conduct, award damages and permanently bar him from Grok.","causal_attribution":"Relief requested in the pleading; no ruling is in the inspected record."}],"effects":[{"label":"Real adults and children depicted, without consent, in sexualised images that xAI says Grok produced from their photographs","claim_id":"c3","direction":"negative"}],"sources":[{"id":"s1","url":"https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.txnd.423147/gov.uscourts.txnd.423147.1.0_3.pdf","kind":"court_filing","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"English complaint (ECF 1, 12 pages) read in full on 2026-10-14 with pdftotext by the research agent; no translation required.","independence_group":"xai-complaint"},{"id":"s2","url":"https://www.scag.gov/about-the-office/news/four-upstate-men-arrested-on-child-sexual-abuse-material-charges/","kind":"official_statement","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"English release dated MAR 09, 2026 on the page, read in full on 2026-10-14; no translation required. It announces four unrelated arrests and does not mention AI or Grok.","independence_group":"sc-attorney-general-release"},{"id":"s3","url":"https://www.engadget.com/2216382/xai-sues-grok-user-generating-nonconsensual-sexualized-deepfakes/","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"English report of 16 July 2026 read in full on 2026-10-14; no translation required. It relays the complaint and the attorney general release, so it shares their origins.","independence_group":"xai-complaint"},{"id":"s4","url":"https://www.cnn.com/2026/07/15/business/xai-sues-user-alleged-child-sexual-abuse-materials","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"English report of 15 July 2026 (US time) read in full on 2026-10-14; no translation required. It relays the complaint.","independence_group":"xai-complaint"}],"version":1,"ai_roles":["others_use"],"contexts":["privacy","justice"],"unknowns":["No depicted person is identified, counted or located in any inspected source, and whether any has been told or has brought a claim is unknown.","How many images or videos Grok actually produced, and which of the altered prompts succeeded, is not stated.","Whether the material behind the South Carolina charges is Grok output rests only on xAI's pleading on information and belief; the attorney general release does not say.","The user's response to the civil complaint and the status of both the civil and the criminal case after July 2026 were not established.","Where the accounts were used is not stated."],"geography":{"basis":"Courts: the civil complaint is in the US District Court for the Northern District of Texas (s1 caption) and the criminal charges were brought in South Carolina (s2; s1 paragraph 34). No source says where the accounts were used: the complaint gives only the place the user is believed to reside, and residence does not locate the event. The depicted people's locations are not reported. Event and affected-person countries are therefore unknown; the 2026-09-16 review had recorded the event in the US from the residence.","court_countries":["US"],"event_countries":[],"affected_person_countries":[]},"publication":{"basis":"Published as an attributed account from the provider's own court complaint, which describes its image tool turning photographs of real adults and children into sexual images, together with the state attorney general's arrest release. The allegations and charges are unproven and recorded as such; the depicted people are unidentified and uncounted, and the accused user is not named in the public narrative.","reviewed_on":"2026-10-14"},"ai_involvement":{"basis":"The provider's own complaint, based on its review of the user's accounts, alleges that Grok altered uploaded photographs of real adults and minors into sexually explicit images and videos after he resubmitted prompts that Grok had refused, and that some of the images involved the likeness of children (s1 paragraphs 7, 27 to 29, 41). Those depicted are the harmed people. The attorney general release does not mention AI, and no court has ruled on the allegations.","status":"reported"},"person_relations":["depicted_or_impersonated"]},"name":"xAI complaint alleges a South Carolina user made Grok sexualise photographs of adults and children","summary":"xAI filed a civil complaint in July 2026 alleging that a South Carolina user, between December 2025 and February 2026, uploaded non-sexual photographs of numerous adults and minors and used Grok to alter them or generate new sexualised images and videos without their consent, resubmitting prompts after Grok refused. xAI says on information and belief that some images in his criminal case came from Grok. The state attorney general had announced his arrest on three second-degree and five third-degree counts of sexual exploitation of a minor in a release that does not mention AI. The civil and criminal accusations are unproven.","incidentDate":"2025-12-08","incidentEndDate":"2026-02-18","incidentKind":"bounded_series","incidentDatePrecision":"range","exposurePattern":"unknown","reportedDate":"2026-07-15","aiSystem":"Grok (xAI image generation and editing)","aiProduct":"Grok","aiCompany":"xAI (X.AI LLC, the plaintiff; Engadget calls the company SpaceXAI)","severity":"high","verificationStatus":"verified","harmCategories":[],"harmOutcomes":["exploitation_or_abuse"],"harmOutcomeSummary":"Per xAI's complaint, real adults and minors had non-sexual photographs of themselves turned into sexualised images or videos by Grok at the user's prompting, without their consent. No depicted person is identified in the inspected sources.","frameworkFacets":[],"causationStatus":"alleged","participantUsersAffectedMin":0,"otherPeopleHarmedMin":0,"affectedCountStatus":"unquantified","affectedCountEvidence":"The complaint refers to numerous adults and minors without a count; its one worked example is a request Grok refused, and the attorney general release counts charges, not victims. No reliable count of depicted people exists, so the count is unquantified with zero placeholders.","victimAgeRange":"minor","jurisdiction":"US","platformType":"chatbot","outcomeType":"lawsuit_filed","outcomeStatus":"ongoing","primarySourceUrl":"https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.txnd.423147/gov.uscourts.txnd.423147.1.0_3.pdf","primarySourceLabel":"X.AI LLC complaint, N.D. 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Sentencing remarks inspected, especially paragraphs 1–10 and sentence. The document does not mention AI or DeepSeek.","independence_group":"roberts_court"},{"id":"report","url":"https://www.dailypost.co.uk/news/north-wales-news/ai-killer-33661486","kind":"court_report","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"English; no translation. Full court report inspected. AI passages are expressly the prosecution’s account; graphic and identifying detail is not reproduced.","independence_group":"roberts_court"}],"version":1,"ai_roles":["others_use"],"contexts":["justice","public_safety"],"unknowns":["The full chatbot transcript was not inspected.","A separate independent source confirming the AI connection was not established; the judgment is silent on it.","The relative influence of chatbot advice and the defendant’s pre-existing intent is unresolved."],"geography":{"basis":"The judgment places the attack, the victim’s residence and the sentencing court in Wales. The place where the chatbot was used is unspecified.","court_countries":["GB"],"event_countries":["GB"],"affected_person_countries":["GB"]},"publication":{"basis":"The inspected sources describe a concrete adverse event and the specific chatbot interaction at issue. The account preserves attribution and separates the reported AI connection from a finding of causation.","reviewed_on":"2026-10-05"},"ai_involvement":{"basis":"The prosecutor reportedly described a refused violent request followed by advice after fictional reframing. The communicated_with relation describes the chatbot’s exchange with the perpetrator; the harmed people were affected through another person’s use. The sentencing judge discussed internet research but did not identify an AI system, so the judgment cannot independently verify DeepSeek’s role.","status":"reported"},"person_relations":["communicated_with"]},"metadataReview":{"version":1,"geography":{"basis":"Re-checked on 2026-10-02 against the Mold Crown Court sentencing remarks of 25 Mar 2026, the CPS Cymru-Wales press release and the North Wales Live (Daily Post) court report, all read in English; the North Wales Police release and the ITV News Wales report could not be read. The CPS release places the first attack at the shared home in Prestatyn and the killing in Prestatyn Nature Reserve, which supports event_countries=GB (Prestatyn is a town in North Wales). The sentencing remarks state that the victim had moved back to live in North Wales with her sons and that she was attacked in the home she shared with the defendant, which supports affected_person_countries=GB. The sentence was passed at Mold Crown Court (England and Wales), which supports court_countries=GB. GB represents the UK. No inspected source states where the defendant used the chatbot, so event_countries describes the killing, not the chatbot use. 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It does not mention DeepSeek or any AI system.","access":"read","language":"en"},{"url":"https://www.northwales.police.uk/news/north-wales/news/news/2026/march/prestatyn-man-18-sentenced-for-murder/","notes":"Live fetches on 2026-10-02 returned HTTP 403 with a Cloudflare challenge page ('Just a moment...'), with both a browser user agent and a plain request. Internet Archive was 'Temporarily Offline' (CDX returned no rows; the 2026 capture request returned HTTP 503). Not read, so its language is not recorded here.","access":"unavailable","language":null},{"url":"https://www.itv.com/news/wales/2026-03-25/teenager-jailed-for-killing-mother-with-a-hammer-because-of-hatred-of-women","notes":"Live fetches on 2026-10-02 failed without a response (HTTP/2 stream INTERNAL_ERROR, and a 25-second timeout over HTTP/1.1); the ITV news front page failed the same way. Internet Archive was 'Temporarily Offline' (CDX returned no rows). Not read, so its language is not recorded here.","access":"unavailable","language":null},{"url":"https://www.dailypost.co.uk/news/north-wales-news/ai-killer-33661486","notes":"Read live on 2026-10-02 (html lang=en). A request with a browser user agent returned HTTP 202 with an AWS WAF challenge page; a plain request returned HTTP 200 with the full article. English. North Wales Live court report of 25 Mar 2026 by two staff reporters (photographs credited PA Media / North Wales Police). Gives Mold Crown Court and Prestatyn; it carries the prosecution's account of the DeepSeek queries. The street address in the article was not used.","access":"read","language":"en"}]},"name":"Prosecutor reports DeepSeek advice before a man murdered his mother in Wales","summary":"A man murdered his mother in Wales after an attack spanning 23–24 October 2025, as established in the sentencing remarks. At the sentencing hearing, the prosecutor reportedly said DeepSeek first refused a violent request, then supplied advice after it was reframed as fiction. The judgment confirms the murder and internet research but does not mention AI. The role of DeepSeek remains an attributed prosecution account.","incidentDate":"2025-10-23","incidentEndDate":"2025-10-24","incidentKind":"single_event","incidentDatePrecision":"range","exposurePattern":"repeated_interactions","reportedDate":"2026-03-25","aiSystem":"DeepSeek, as named in the prosecution account reported by North Wales Live","aiProduct":"DeepSeek (reported)","aiCompany":"DeepSeek","severity":"critical","verificationStatus":"credible","harmCategories":[],"harmOutcomes":["death","psychological_distress","harm_to_others"],"harmOutcomeSummary":"A man murdered his mother in Wales after an attack spanning 23–24 October 2025, as established in the sentencing remarks. 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The ages of the depicted graduates are not stated in the pages read."},{"id":"c5","status":"documented","evidence":[{"locator":"'Based on my conversations with multiple victims who have had AI-generated pornographic material purporting to depict them published by'; 'The loss of dignity inherent in the idea that someone else can manipulate their images'; 'Psychological, emotional, and reputational harms attendant to knowing that materials depicting oneself engaged in sexual activities are widespread'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s5"},{"locator":"'Based on my conversations with multiple victims who have had AI-generated pornographic material purporting to depict them published by'; 'The loss of dignity inherent in the idea that someone else can manipulate their images'; 'Psychological, emotional, and reputational harms attendant to knowing that materials depicting oneself engaged in sexual activities are widespread'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s6"}],"assertion":"Each FBI affiant says the account of harm draws on conversations with multiple depicted victims or their representatives, and lists harms that women depicted in such forgeries have described, including loss of dignity and psychological, emotional and reputational harm. The complaints do not attribute a particular harm to a particular victim.","causal_attribution":"The affiants' own statements in sworn complaints; the underlying conversations with victims were not published, so individual harms are not established."},{"id":"c6","status":"documented","evidence":[{"locator":"'the defendants used cutting-edge digital technology to create images that degraded and violated victims across the United States'; 'inflicts emotional harm on victims, violating their privacy, dignity, and security'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"The U.S. Attorney said that, as alleged, the defendants used digital technology to create images that degraded and violated victims across the United States, and the FBI said the conduct inflicts emotional harm on victims and violates their privacy, dignity and security.","causal_attribution":"Officials' characterisation of the alleged harm in the release."},{"id":"c7","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'Federal prosecutors charged two men whose combined deepfake albums depicted 140 named victims and reached nearly 3 million views.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s3"}],"assertion":"TechTimes adds the prosecutors' approximate figures to 140 victims and nearly 3 million views; whether any woman is depicted in both cases is not reported.","causal_attribution":"TechTimes' own sums of approximate figures; the release and complaints give no combined total, and overlap between the two cases is unresolved."}],"effects":[{"label":"women were depicted without consent in AI-generated sexual images and videos published on an adult-content platform (complaints' allegations)","claim_id":"c2","direction":"negative"},{"label":"the FBI affiants, citing conversations with victims, list loss of dignity and psychological, emotional and reputational harm among harms that women depicted in such forgeries have described (general account in the complaints)","claim_id":"c5","direction":"negative"}],"sources":[{"id":"s1","url":"https://www.justice.gov/usao-edny/pr/two-individuals-arrested-publishing-ai-deepfake-pornography-violation-take-it-down-act","kind":"official_record","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"Read on 2026-10-20 from the Internet Archive capture of 21 May 2026 (web.archive.org/web/20260521195624id_/...); the live page returned a 2.5 kB shell. Press release of the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of New York dated Wednesday 20 May 2026.","independence_group":"usao-edny-prosecution"},{"id":"s2","url":"https://time.com/article/2026/05/22/ai-deepfake-revenge-porn-take-it-down-act-law/","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"Read on 2026-10-20 from the Internet Archive capture of 22 May 2026 (20260522122010); the live page answered HTTP 406. TIME, Miranda Jeyaretnam, 22 May 2026. Its account of the two cases relies on the release and the complaints, so it shares their independence group.","independence_group":"usao-edny-prosecution"},{"id":"s3","url":"https://www.techtimes.com/articles/317135/20260525/ai-deepfake-pornography-charges-140-victims-named-take-it-down-act-claims-first-major-arrests.htm","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"Read live on 2026-10-20 (TechTimes, 25 May 2026). Relies on the release and court filings; its combined figures (140 victims, nearly 3 million views) are its own sums of the prosecutors' approximate numbers.","independence_group":"usao-edny-prosecution"},{"id":"s4","url":"https://brooklyneagle.com/389427/2-men-charged-with-creating-ai-generated-porn-under-new-law-targeting-deepfakes/","kind":"news_report","access":"unavailable","language":null,"translation_note":"Cited by the June 2026 row; answered HTTP 403 on 2026-10-20, and the Internet Archive capture checked on 2026-09-24 contained no article text. Not relied on.","independence_group":"brooklyn-eagle"},{"id":"s5","url":"https://www.justice.gov/usao-edny/media/1441496/dl?inline","kind":"court_filing","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"Redacted complaint and affidavit in support of an arrest warrant, E.D.N.Y. Docket No. 26-MJ-96 (one of the two cases), linked from the release and fetched from justice.gov on 2026-10-20. The 14-page PDF is a scan with no text layer; the research agent (an AI) read rendered page images of pages 2 and 4 to 12, and the locators are its transcription of those pages. Pages 1, 3, 13 and 14 were not read.","independence_group":"usao-edny-prosecution"},{"id":"s6","url":"https://www.justice.gov/usao-edny/media/1441501/dl?inline","kind":"court_filing","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"Redacted complaint and affidavit in support of an arrest warrant, E.D.N.Y. Case No. 26 MJ 97 (the other case), linked from the release and fetched from justice.gov on 2026-10-20. The 16-page PDF is a scan with no text layer; the research agent (an AI) read rendered page images of pages 1, 5 to 10, 13 and 14, and the locators are its transcription of those pages. Pages 2 to 4, 11, 12, 15 and 16 were not read.","independence_group":"usao-edny-prosecution"}],"version":1,"ai_roles":["others_use"],"contexts":["privacy","justice"],"unknowns":["The AI tools used to generate the material.","Whether any woman is depicted in both cases, and so the combined number of depicted women.","The ages of the depicted high-school graduates when their photographs were taken.","Whether the publication began before 19 May 2025; the complaints count publication from that date, when the law was enacted.","Later docket activity (indictment, pleas, trial or sentence); none was found in news searches on 2026-10-20.","Whether the material has been removed from the platform."],"geography":{"basis":"The complaints were filed and unsealed in the Eastern District of New York, where law enforcement captured the accounts' content from Brooklyn (s5, s6), and the defendants were arrested in New Jersey and Texas (s1). One complaint says at least one depicted woman resides in the Eastern District of New York (s6), and the U.S. Attorney refers to victims across the United States (s1). Other depicted women's locations are not reported.","court_countries":["US"],"event_countries":["US"],"affected_person_countries":["US"]},"publication":{"basis":"Core case (depicted_or_impersonated): two sworn federal complaints allege that AI-generated sexual images and videos of about 90 and at least 50 identifiable women, including non-public women whose ordinary photographs were turned into sexual videos, were published without consent on an adult-content platform, and the FBI affiants, citing conversations with depicted victims, describe the harms such women report. The complaints, the prosecutor's release and two news reports were inspected; the conduct remains alleged and the defendants are presumed innocent. No defendant or victim is named.","reviewed_on":"2026-10-20"},"ai_involvement":{"basis":"The sworn complaints say the accounts published explicit AI-generated content in which still photographs of identifiable women morph into AI-generated sexual depictions, and each FBI affiant attributes the material to AI in part because album titles or hashtags label it AI-generated (s5, s6). The release calls it AI deepfake pornography. The generation tools are not named and no technical examination is described in the pages read.","status":"reported"},"person_relations":["depicted_or_impersonated"]},"name":"US federal complaints allege two men published AI sexual deepfakes of about 90 and at least 50 women, including women who are not public figures","summary":"Federal prosecutors in Brooklyn charged two men in separate cases under the TAKE IT DOWN Act. The sworn complaints allege that each published albums of AI-generated sexual images and videos of identifiable women on an adult-content platform: about 90 women in one case and at least 50 in the other, including acquaintances and recent high-school graduates whose ordinary photographs were turned into sexual videos. The charges are unproven.","incidentDate":"2025-05-19","incidentEndDate":"2026-04-17","incidentKind":"bounded_series","incidentDatePrecision":"range","exposurePattern":"unknown","reportedDate":"2026-05-20","aiSystem":"Unnamed AI image and video generation tools used to turn still photographs of identifiable women into sexually explicit 'digital forgeries'; the FBI affiants attribute the material to AI partly because album titles and hashtags label it AI-generated (complaints, E.D.N.Y. 26-MJ-96 and 26-MJ-97)","aiProduct":"Unidentified image and video tool","severity":"high","verificationStatus":"credible","harmCategories":[],"harmOutcomes":["exploitation_or_abuse","reputational_harm","psychological_distress"],"harmOutcomeSummary":"The complaints allege that at least 50 and approximately 90 women in the two cases were depicted without consent in AI-generated sexual images and videos published on an adult-content platform and viewed hundreds of thousands to millions of times; the FBI affiants describe loss of dignity and psychological, emotional and reputational harm reported by depicted women. No individual victim's account was published.","frameworkFacets":[],"causationStatus":"alleged","participantUsersAffectedMin":0,"otherPeopleHarmedMin":50,"affectedCountStatus":"partial","affectedCountEvidence":"One complaint states the albums 'contained AI pornographic material of at least 50 different female victims' (s6), an explicit lower bound for that case, so 50 are counted. The other complaint gives approximately 90 women (s5), an approximation that is not a documented minimum, and overlap between the cases is unreported, so those women are the unquantified remainder. TechTimes' total of 140 is its own sum and is not used. View counts are audiences and are not counted.","victimAgeRange":"adult","jurisdiction":"US","platformType":"other","outcomeType":"criminal_charges","outcomeStatus":"pending","primarySourceUrl":"https://www.justice.gov/usao-edny/pr/two-individuals-arrested-publishing-ai-deepfake-pornography-violation-take-it-down-act","primarySourceLabel":"U.S. Attorney's Office, Eastern District of New York, press release, 20 May 2026","firstPublishedAt":"2026-06-03T07:36:19.792596+00:00","updatedAt":"2026-10-20T03:02:05.015666+00:00","scopeVersion":"facts-v3","tags":["deepfake","ncii","take-it-down-act","criminal-charges","federal-prosecution","united-states","depicted-or-impersonated"]},{"id":"2025-ikner-fsu-shooting","caseFacts":{"claims":[{"id":"c1","status":"corroborated","evidence":[{"locator":"'Police investigate the scene of a shooting near the student union at Florida State University on April 17, 2025 in Tallahassee, Florida. Two people were killed and six injured in the attack.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"'the mass shooting at Florida State University in Tallahassee on April 17, 2025, and the deaths of two people, with five others injured.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"},{"locator":"'The shooting, which took place on the FSU campus on April 17, 2025, injured six people and killed two people'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s3"}],"assertion":"On 17 April 2025 a shooting at Florida State University in Tallahassee killed two people and wounded at least five others (five per Click Orlando; six per NPR's correction and ABC News).","causal_attribution":"The deaths and injuries were caused by the shooting. The record does not attribute them to ChatGPT; see c3 to c13 for the contested AI connection."},{"id":"c2","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'was charged with two counts of first-degree murder and seven counts of attempted murder. He has pleaded not guilty.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s3"},{"locator":"'is facing multiple charges of murder and attempted murder for the April 2025 shooting near the student union on FSU's Tallahassee campus, where he was a student at the time.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"Phoenix Ikner, an FSU student at the time, is accused of the shooting and charged with two counts of first-degree murder and seven counts of attempted murder, and has pleaded not guilty.","causal_attribution":"These are criminal charges; guilt has not been determined."},{"id":"c3","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'Through a public records request to the state attorney's office, News 6 obtained the thousands of conversations Ikner had with ChatGPT over the course of a year.'; '\"How do police investigate suicides?\"'; 'He then asks about the 2007 Virginia Tech shooting and the 1999 mass shooting at Columbine High School.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"}],"assertion":"ChatGPT transcripts released in court documents, which News 6 obtained from the state attorney's office, show Ikner conversing with ChatGPT over about a year, including questions about suicide and about terrorism and earlier mass shootings.","causal_attribution":"Describes the content of the conversations as reported from the transcripts; it does not establish that the conversations caused the shooting."},{"id":"c4","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'Then, in April, Ikner asks ChatGPT how the country would react to a shooting at FSU.'; 'Yes, a shooting at Florida State University involving three of more victims would almost certainly receive national media coverage'; 'After that, Ikner asks questions on 12-gauge shotguns, and Glocks, and how the safety buttons work.'; 'What time is it busiest in the FSU student union?'; 'Ikner asks, \"What about 3 plus at FSU?\"'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"},{"locator":"'Court documents show that the suspected gunman Ikner communicated extensively with ChatGPT in the days, hours and minutes leading up to the tragic shooting, including asking about the busiest times at FSU'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s4"}],"assertion":"In April 2025 Ikner asked ChatGPT how the country would react to a shooting at FSU and asked \"What about 3 plus at FSU?\", and ChatGPT replied that such a shooting 'would almost certainly receive national media coverage'; Ikner then asked about 12-gauge shotguns, Glocks and how the safety buttons work, and what time the FSU student union is busiest.","causal_attribution":"Both outlets report the same court-record transcripts (one record chain, so reported). The questions and answers are evidence in the criminal case; whether the answers contributed to the attack is disputed (c8, c9)."},{"id":"c13","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'According to more than 13,000 messages reviewed and previously reported by the Phoenix'; 'Ikner's final request came three minutes before the shooting.'; 'What button is the safety off for the Remington 12 gauge?'; 'The AI provided detailed instructions.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s11"}],"assertion":"According to the Florida Phoenix's review of more than 13,000 messages, Ikner's final request to ChatGPT came three minutes before the shooting and asked which button turns the safety off on a Remington 12-gauge, and the AI provided detailed instructions.","causal_attribution":"Reported from the court-record transcripts (same chain as c4). It shows the timing and content of the exchange, not that the answer caused the shooting."},{"id":"c5","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'At times, ChatGPT tells Ikner that it can't diagnose him, then explains clinical information on depression symptoms and suggests he speak to a counselor. It then suggests that if he needs immediate help to reach out to a crisis hotline, though it doesn't provide a number.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"}],"assertion":"When Ikner asked about mental health, ChatGPT at times explained depression symptoms, suggested speaking to a counselor and suggested a crisis hotline without giving a number.","causal_attribution":"Describes reported ChatGPT replies. OpenAI's motion, as WCTV reports it, says ChatGPT also referred Ikner to the 988 line (c9)."},{"id":"c6","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'According to court filings, more than 200 AI messages have been entered into evidence in the case.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"According to court filings reported by NPR, more than 200 AI messages have been entered into evidence in the criminal case.","causal_attribution":"Establishes the reported evidentiary use of the messages, not their effect."},{"id":"c7","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'consulted ChatGPT for advice before the shooting, including what type of gun to use, what ammunition went with it, and what time to go to campus to encounter more people, according to an initial review of Ikner's chat logs.'; 'issuing subpoenas to OpenAI seeking information about its policies and internal training materials'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"'launched a criminal investigation into OpenAI and ChatGPT after prosecutors reviewed the chat logs.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s3"}],"assertion":"On 21 April 2026 Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier announced a criminal investigation of OpenAI over the shooting, said an initial review of the chat logs showed Ikner consulted ChatGPT on the gun, ammunition and timing, and issued subpoenas for OpenAI policies and training materials dating back to March 2024.","causal_attribution":"The Attorney General's characterisation of the chat logs is an official allegation; no charge against OpenAI is reported."},{"id":"c8","status":"documented","evidence":[{"locator":"'JOSHI v. OPENAI FOUNDATION, 4:26-cv-00222, (N.D. Fla.) Date Filed: May 10, 2026'; 'SUMMONS ISSUED-PHOENIX IKNER'; 'by VANDANA JOSHI'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s5"},{"locator":"'MALL v. OPENAI FOUNDATION, 4:26-cv-00334, (N.D. Fla.) Date Filed: July 14, 2026'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s6"},{"locator":"'ASKINS v. OPENAI FOUNDATION, 4:26-cv-00335, (N.D. Fla.) Date Filed: July 14, 2026'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s7"},{"locator":"'GOURLEY v. OPENAI FOUNDATION, 4:26-cv-00416, (N.D. Fla.) Date Filed: Aug. 26, 2026'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s8"},{"locator":"'MORALES v. OPENAI FOUNDATION, 4:26-cv-00425, (N.D. Fla.) Date Filed: Aug. 31, 2026'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s9"},{"locator":"'Attorneys representing the family of Florida State University shooting victim Tiru Chabba have filed a federal lawsuit against OpenAI'; 'The complaint, which was filed on Sunday in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Florida, also names the shooting suspect, Phoenix Ikner, as a defendant.'","relation":"context","source_id":"s3"}],"assertion":"Vandana Joshi sued the OpenAI Foundation and Phoenix Ikner in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Florida on 10 May 2026 (Joshi v. OpenAI Foundation, 4:26-cv-00222), the suit ABC News reports as brought by the family of Tiru Chabba. Further suits against OpenAI Foundation were filed in the same court by Elizabeth Mall and Madison Askins on 14 July 2026, Reese Gourley on 26 August 2026 and Betty Morales on 31 August 2026.","causal_attribution":"The dockets establish that the suits exist and when they were filed. The plaintiffs' allegations that ChatGPT helped plan the attack are allegations; the Chabba family's attorney told ABC News Ikner used ChatGPT 'as his co-conspirator'. The Mall docket records a notice of related cases and the same discovery-consolidation order entered in Joshi; the connection of the later suits to the shooting rests on the press accounts listed in additional_sources, not on these docket headers."},{"id":"c9","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'we identified an account believed to be associated with the suspect and proactively shared this information with law enforcement.'; 'ChatGPT provided factual responses to questions with information that could be found broadly across public sources on the internet, and it did not encourage or promote illegal or harmful activity.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s3"},{"locator":"'ChatGPT is not responsible for this terrible crime.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"OpenAI's position is that ChatGPT is not responsible for the crime and provided factual responses with publicly available information, and that after the shooting it identified an account believed to be associated with the suspect and shared it with law enforcement.","causal_attribution":"OpenAI disputes that ChatGPT caused or contributed to the shooting."},{"id":"c10","status":"documented","evidence":[{"locator":"'ORDER DIRECTING PARTIES TO CONFER REGARDING CONSOLIDATING DISCOVERY. The parties' joint reports are due on or before 9/29/2026.'; 'MOTION TO DISMISS FOR FAILURE TO STATE A CLAIM by AESTAS LLC'; 'Exhibit 1 - Chat Logs'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s5"},{"locator":"'24 Sep 22, 2026 ORDER DIRECTING PARTIES TO CONFER REGARDING CONSOLIDATING DISCOVERY.'; 'The parties shall file their proposed consolidated discovery schedule on or before Friday, 10/2/2026.'","relation":"context","source_id":"s6"}],"assertion":"On 22 September 2026 the court in Joshi ordered the parties to confer about consolidating discovery, with joint reports due by 29 September 2026; on 25 September 2026 the OpenAI defendants moved to dismiss the suit for failure to state a claim, attaching a declaration and exhibits including chat logs.","causal_attribution":"The docket establishes that the order and the motion were filed; the court has not ruled on the motion."},{"id":"c11","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'At no point did Ikner tell ChatGPT that he was planning or intended to commit a shooting'; 'referred him to the 988 crisis line'; 'it had no legal duty to warn about or prevent Ikner'; 'holding it liable would violate free speech rights'; 'responses were consistently factual'; 'repeatedly encouraged him to'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s4"}],"assertion":"According to WCTV's account of the motion to dismiss, OpenAI argues that Ikner never told ChatGPT of a plan to commit a shooting, that ChatGPT's responses were consistently factual, that it encouraged Ikner to talk to someone and referred Ikner to the 988 crisis line when depression came up, that it had no legal duty to warn or prevent the crime, and that liability would violate free-speech rights.","causal_attribution":"These are OpenAI's litigation arguments as reported by WCTV; they dispute the plaintiffs' allegations and are not findings."},{"id":"c12","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'His trial is set to begin on Oct. 19.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"'He is expected to stand trial on June 8, 2027, and could face the death penalty if convicted.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s4"}],"assertion":"Ikner's criminal trial date has moved: NPR reported in April 2026 that the trial was set to begin on 19 October, and WCTV reported on 28 September 2026 that Ikner is expected to stand trial on 8 June 2027 and could face the death penalty if convicted.","causal_attribution":"Procedural status only. The June 2027 date is WCTV's report and was not confirmed from a Leon County court record."}],"effects":[{"label":"two people were killed and at least five wounded in the shooting near the FSU student union","claim_id":"c1","direction":"negative"}],"sources":[{"id":"s1","url":"https://www.npr.org/2026/04/21/nx-s1-5793967/florida-openai-investigation-mass-shooting-fsu","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"NPR, 21 April 2026 (corrected 7 May 2026). Body retained from the 2026-09-24 live read (html lang=en) and re-read for this review. Reports the Attorney General's press conference and OpenAI's statement to NPR.","independence_group":"npr"},{"id":"s2","url":"https://www.clickorlando.com/news/investigators/2026/04/09/fsu-shooting-suspect-used-chatgpt-to-help-plan-fatal-attack-court-records-show/","kind":"local_tv_news","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"WKMG News 6 (Click Orlando), 9 April 2026. 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Returned HTTP 202 with an empty body twice on 2026-10-04; the removal facts in the narrative are carried forward from the 2026-09-17 review and were not re-inspected here.","independence_group":"court-record-grant"},{"id":"s11","url":"https://www.wlrn.org/government-politics/2026-04-21/uthmeier-investigating-whether-chatgpt-is-criminally-liable-for-fsu-shooting","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"WLRN, 21 April 2026, by Liv Caputo of the Florida Phoenix (States Newsroom), read live on 2026-10-04 (HTTP 200). 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Neither figure was established from a court record in this review.","The Leon County criminal docket was not inspected; the June 8, 2027 trial date rests on WCTV's report.","The motion to dismiss, the discovery order and the complaints were read only as docket entries or through press accounts, not as documents.","The Grant removal docket and the other retained press sources (AP, CNN, NBC News, WJHG, Tallahassee Reports, Florida Phoenix, WTXL, WCTV August 2026, Tallahassee Democrat via Yahoo) were not re-inspected in this review; the narrative's account of those suits is carried forward from earlier reviews.","Whether OpenAI's systems flagged Ikner's account before the shooting is not reported."],"geography":{"basis":"Carried forward from the 2026-09-24 metadata review and re-checked: NPR and Click Orlando place the shooting at Florida State University in Tallahassee, Florida, where those killed and wounded were. The criminal case is in Florida, and the civil suits are in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Florida (CourtListener dockets). The victims' countries of residence are recorded from the location of the shooting; WCTV describes Chabba as a South Carolina father.","court_countries":["US"],"event_countries":["US"],"affected_person_countries":["US"]},"publication":{"basis":"Two deaths and the injuries are reported by NPR, Click Orlando and ABC News. Ikner's ChatGPT use is reported from court-record transcripts and acknowledged by OpenAI's account identification. Civil suits and the September 2026 motion to dismiss are documented on CourtListener dockets. The AI connection is alleged by the Attorney General and plaintiffs and disputed by OpenAI; causation is not established.","reviewed_on":"2026-10-04"},"ai_involvement":{"basis":"ChatGPT transcripts obtained by News 6 from the state attorney's office through a public-records request show the accused, Ikner, asking ChatGPT about a shooting at FSU, firearm safety mechanisms and the busiest time at the student union; NPR reports more than 200 AI messages entered into evidence, and OpenAI says it identified an account believed to be associated with the suspect. The killed and wounded are third parties harmed by Ikner's use. Whether ChatGPT contributed to the attack is contested: the plaintiffs and Florida's Attorney General allege it did, and OpenAI says ChatGPT gave factual, publicly available information and is not responsible.","status":"supported"},"person_relations":["communicated_with"]},"metadataReview":{"version":1,"geography":{"basis":"Carried forward from the 2026-09-15 metadata review and now supported by inspected bodies. NPR and Click Orlando place the shooting near the student union of Florida State University in Tallahassee, Florida, on 17 April 2025, where the two people killed and those wounded were; the criminal case is in Florida and the civil suits in the Northern District of Florida and Leon County (retained row). 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Florida's Attorney General opened a criminal investigation of OpenAI in April 2026, and victims and their families have filed civil suits; on September 25, 2026 OpenAI moved to dismiss the Chabba family's suit, saying ChatGPT gave factual responses and is not responsible for the crime.","incidentDate":"2025-04-17","incidentKind":"single_event","incidentDatePrecision":"day","exposurePattern":"cumulative_relationship","reportedDate":"2026-04-09","aiSystem":"ChatGPT","aiProduct":"ChatGPT","aiCompany":"OpenAI","severity":"critical","verificationStatus":"verified","harmCategories":["third_party_harm_facilitation","crisis_response","method_provision"],"harmOutcomes":["death","physical_injury","harm_to_others","legal_harm","loss_of_liberty"],"harmOutcomeSummary":"A shooting at Florida State University on 17 April 2025 killed two people and wounded at least five; the accused, Phoenix Ikner, has pleaded not guilty. ChatGPT transcripts released in court records, as reported by Click Orlando and the Florida Phoenix, include firearm and student-union timing questions in the hours and minutes before the attack.","frameworkFacets":["P1a","P1c","P1d","P5d"],"pathwayDirection":"outward","causationStatus":"alleged","participantUsersAffectedMin":1,"otherPeopleHarmedMin":7,"affectedCountStatus":"documented_minimum","affectedCountEvidence":"Two people were killed and at least five wounded in the shooting (Click Orlando reports five injured; NPR's 7 May 2026 correction and ABC News report six). The lower reported injury count is used. The participant count of one is the accused, Ikner, who used ChatGPT and has been charged with two counts of first-degree murder and seven counts of attempted murder (ABC News); the legal_harm outcome refers to him.","victimAgeRange":"adult","jurisdiction":"US-FL","platformType":"assistant","outcomeType":"lawsuit_filed","outcomeStatus":"ongoing","primarySourceUrl":"https://www.npr.org/2026/04/21/nx-s1-5793967/florida-openai-investigation-mass-shooting-fsu","primarySourceLabel":"NPR — Florida AG opens OpenAI investigation over FSU shooting","firstPublishedAt":"2026-04-28T13:00:04.410579+00:00","updatedAt":"2026-10-04T03:21:55.18827+00:00","scopeVersion":"facts-v3","tags":["criminal-investigation","lawsuit","shooting","mass-violence","chatgpt","openai","fsu","florida","us","regulatory"]},{"id":"2025-sarthe-chatgpt-radicalization","caseFacts":{"claims":[{"id":"c1","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'Le jeune de la Sarthe qui a été mis en examen le 5 septembre pour association de malfaiteurs terroriste'; 'Cet adolescent avait été arrêté chez ses parents'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"'Arrêté au domicile de ses parents'; 'puis mis en examen le 5 septembre'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"},{"locator":"'The teen was formally put under investigation and locked up on Friday'; 'He was arrested on Monday at his parents’ home, where he lived, in the western Sarthe region'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s4"}],"assertion":"The teenager was arrested at his parents' home at the start of September 2025 and on 5 September was charged (mis en examen) with criminal terrorist conspiracy and placed in detention.","causal_attribution":"Procedural facts as reported by ICI Maine and by AFP's sources; no court document was inspected."},{"id":"c2","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'Il voulait s'en prendre à un établissement scolaire en Sarthe et à des bâtiments publics à Paris.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"'le jeune homme projetait de s’en prendre à un établissement scolaire en Sarthe ainsi qu’à un ministère ou un bâtiment public à Paris'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"},{"locator":"'suspected of targeting the embassies of Israel, Britain, and the United States, as well as the French interior ministry'; 'a search of the home found a pledge of allegiance to the Islamic State terror group'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s4"}],"assertion":"According to the reports, he planned to attack a school in Sarthe and a ministry or public building in Paris; AFP's sources said he was suspected of targeting the embassies of Israel, Britain and the United States and other buildings, and that a search of the home found a pledge of allegiance to the Islamic State group.","causal_attribution":"The alleged plans as reported; allegations in an ongoing investigation."},{"id":"c3","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'préparait ses projets d'attentats sur l'assistant conversationnel ChatGPT. C'est une information du Parisien'; 'L'adolescent a effectivement utilisé l'IA à de nombreuses reprises'; 'Je confirme que l'intelligence artificielle, et notamment ChatGPT, a eu une influence sur le comportement de mon client.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"'a utilisé l’outil d’intelligence artificielle ChatGPT pour préparer ses projets d’attentats, affirme son avocat à ICI Maine'; 'L’intelligence artificielle, et notamment ChatGPT, a eu une influence sur le comportement de mon client.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"}],"assertion":"Le Parisien reported, and the teenager's lawyer confirmed to ICI Maine, that he used ChatGPT many times in preparing his attack plans; the lawyer said that artificial intelligence, notably ChatGPT, had influenced his client's behaviour.","causal_attribution":"The lawyer's statement and Le Parisien's report; the exchanges themselves are not published."},{"id":"c4","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'le jeune interrogeait ChatGPT sur des aspects techniques liés à la fabrication d’explosifs. Le TATP, tristement connu dans certains attentats, faisait partie de ses recherches'; 'Il a aussi simulé l’explosion de bouteilles de gaz dans un camion, en demandant à l’IA d’évaluer les dégâts'; 'ChatGPT aurait fourni une description détaillée des effets potentiels d’une explosion'; 'L’IA mentionne que les conséquences pourraient inclure des morts immédiates'; 'le chatbot aurait proposé une kunya'; 'l’IA fournirait des textes très explicites, valorisant Daesh'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s3"},{"locator":"'Si 16 bouteilles de gaz de 13 kg de propane explosent dans un camion, quels sont les dégâts ?'; 'Au robot conversationnel à l’intelligence artificielle (IA), l’adolescent prend soin de préciser les dimensions des bouteilles'; 'a notamment questionné l’application ChatGPT sur la fabrication d'explosifs'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s5"}],"assertion":"According to Le Parisien (whose opening quotes his question about propane bottles exploding in a truck) and Le Big Data's summary of it, he asked ChatGPT about making explosives including TATP and asked it to assess the damage from gas bottles exploding in a truck; ChatGPT reportedly described the potential effects of an explosion, including immediate deaths, and reportedly proposed a jihadist fighting name and wrote rap lyrics glorifying the Islamic State group.","causal_attribution":"Le Parisien's readable opening and a secondary summary of its report, in the conditional; the paywalled remainder and the exchanges were not inspected."},{"id":"c5","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'Lors de ses auditions, il a évoqué que ses échanges avec ChatGPT auraient joué un rôle majeur dans sa bascule vers l’islamisme.'; 'selon lui, ChatGPT jouait un rôle encourageant dans sa dérive vers l’islamisme'; 'On a l’impression qu’elle est toujours d’accord avec toi'; 'si on parle de terrorisme, elle va trouver cela normal'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s3"},{"locator":"'a reconnu en garde à vue avoir planifié des actes terroristes. Fait inédit : il impute à l’intelligence artificielle une responsabilité dans sa radicalisation violente et l’élaboration de ses projets mortifères'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s5"}],"assertion":"According to Le Parisien, which says he attributes to AI a responsibility for his violent radicalisation, and Le Big Data's summary of it, he said in his hearings that his exchanges with ChatGPT played a major role in his turn to Islamism. He also said, in remarks the summary does not place, that ChatGPT played an encouraging role in his drift towards Islamism and that it always seemed to agree with him and would find talk of terrorism normal.","causal_attribution":"The accused's own account, relayed second-hand; it is his explanation, not a finding."},{"id":"c6","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'Il a reconnu l'ensemble des faits qui lui sont reprochés, mais je pense qu'il n'était pas seul et qu'il y avait surement une ou des personnes majeures dans cette affaire'; 'minimise sa radicalisation : \"elle était très superficielle\"'; 'l'avocat ne souhaite pas rentrer dans les détails des phrases utilisées par son client avec l'IA'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"'il ne détaille pas les différentes questions que son client aurait posées à l'intelligence artificielle'; 'assure que sa radicalisation \"était très superficielle\"'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"}],"assertion":"His lawyer said he had admitted all the acts he was accused of, that he believed one or more adults were involved, that the radicalisation was very superficial, and declined to detail the questions put to the AI.","causal_attribution":"Counterweight from the defence: other people's involvement and a superficial radicalisation."}],"effects":[{"label":"charged with criminal terrorist conspiracy and detained","claim_id":"c1","direction":"negative"},{"label":"says his exchanges with ChatGPT played a major role in his radicalisation","claim_id":"c5","direction":"negative"}],"sources":[{"id":"s1","url":"https://www.francebleu.fr/infos/faits-divers-justice/le-lyceen-de-la-sarthe-ecroue-pour-association-de-malfaiteurs-terroristes-a-utilise-chatgpt-pour-son-projet-d-attentat-8244309","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"fr","translation_note":"Read on 2026-10-19 (HTTP 200 after a redirect to the renamed ici.fr address; bodies/lr-sar-icimaine.html/.txt). ICI Maine report of 29 Oct 2025 relaying Le Parisien and the lawyer's confirmation. Read in the original French; the English renderings in claims and notes are translations by the research agent (an AI), not by a human translator. Related-story cards were not used.","independence_group":"ici-maine-2025-10-29"},{"id":"s2","url":"https://www.franceinfo.fr/faits-divers/le-lyceen-ecroue-pour-association-de-malfaiteurs-terroristes-dans-la-sarthe-a-utilise-chatgpt-pour-preparer-ses-projets-d-attentats_7582760.html","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"fr","translation_note":"Read on 2026-10-19 (live, HTTP 200; bodies/lr-sar-franceinfo.html/.txt). franceinfo relays the lawyer's statement to ICI Maine and Le Parisien; not independent of s1. Read in the original French; the English renderings in claims and notes are translations by the research agent (an AI), not by a human translator.","independence_group":"ici-maine-2025-10-29"},{"id":"s3","url":"https://www.lebigdata.fr/adolescent-djihadiste-il-accuse-chatgpt-de-lavoir-converti-a-l-islamisme","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"fr","translation_note":"Read on 2026-10-19 through an Internet Archive capture of 14 Feb 2026 (the live site returned HTTP 403; bodies/lr-sar-lebigdata-wb.html/.txt). A technology site's summary of Le Parisien's report; of Le Parisien itself only the free opening (s5) was read. Read in the original French; the English renderings in claims and notes are translations by the research agent (an AI), not by a human translator.","independence_group":"le-parisien-2025-10"},{"id":"s5","url":"https://www.leparisien.fr/faits-divers/chatgpt-est-en-partie-la-cause-de-ma-radicalisation-le-role-trouble-de-lia-dans-le-projet-djihadiste-dun-ado-28-10-2025-HEAARQCQFRG3DK43QLGYZ4THDM.php","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"fr","translation_note":"Read on 2026-10-19 (live, HTTP 200; bodies/lr-sar-leparisien.html/.txt). Le Parisien's original report of 28 Oct 2025 (modified 29 Oct); the page is paywalled (isAccessibleForFree false) and only the headline, standfirst and opening paragraphs were readable. Read in the original French; the English renderings in claims and notes are translations by the research agent (an AI), not by a human translator.","independence_group":"le-parisien-2025-10"},{"id":"s4","url":"https://www.timesofisrael.com/teen-held-in-france-suspected-of-plotting-attacks-including-on-israeli-embassy/","kind":"wire_report","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"Read on 2026-10-19 in English through an Internet Archive capture (the live page returned HTTP 403; bodies/lr-sar-toi-wb.html/.txt). AFP report quoting sources close to the investigation.","independence_group":"afp-2025-09-06"}],"version":1,"ai_roles":["own_use"],"contexts":["justice"],"unknowns":["What ChatGPT actually replied; the exchanges are not published and the paywalled body of Le Parisien's report was not inspected.","When the ChatGPT exchanges took place.","Which court is handling the case and whether a trial has taken place.","Whether investigators or a court attribute any part of the radicalisation to ChatGPT; only the accused and his lawyer are reported."],"geography":{"basis":"Carried forward from the 2026-10-03 metadata review and re-checked: ICI Maine, franceinfo and AFP place the arrest at his parents' home in the Sarthe department and the intended targets in Sarthe and Paris, all in France. The mise en examen is a decision of a French investigating judge; no source names the court. No source says where he used ChatGPT.","court_countries":["FR"],"event_countries":["FR"],"affected_person_countries":["FR"]},"publication":{"basis":"French public broadcasters report, and the defence lawyer confirms, that the detained teenager used ChatGPT in preparing alleged attack plans and that it influenced his behaviour; a summary of Le Parisien relays his statement that the exchanges played a major role in his radicalisation. The AI's replies and its causal role rest on these second-hand accounts.","reviewed_on":"2026-10-22"},"ai_involvement":{"basis":"Le Parisien reported, and the teenager's lawyer confirmed to ICI Maine, that he used ChatGPT many times in preparing his attack plans; the lawyer said ChatGPT influenced his behaviour. Le Big Data's summary of Le Parisien says he asked ChatGPT about explosives and the damage from exploding gas bottles, that it reportedly described an explosion's effects, proposed a fighting name and wrote rap lyrics glorifying the Islamic State group, and that he told investigators the exchanges played a major role in his turn to Islamism and, in remarks it does not place, that it always seemed to agree with him; Le Parisien's own standfirst says he attributes to AI a responsibility for his violent radicalisation. The exchanges are not published and Le Parisien's paywalled remainder was not inspected.","status":"reported"},"person_relations":["communicated_with"]},"name":"French teenager held over alleged attack plans used ChatGPT in preparing them and said it encouraged his radicalisation, reports say","summary":"A secondary-school pupil in the Sarthe department of France was arrested at his parents' home at the start of September 2025, charged on 5 September with criminal terrorist conspiracy (association de malfaiteurs terroriste) and placed in pre-trial detention. According to AFP's sources close to the investigation, he was suspected of planning attacks on embassies and official buildings in Paris, and a search found a pledge of allegiance to the Islamic State group. In late October 2025 Le Parisien reported, and his lawyer confirmed to ICI Maine, that he had used ChatGPT in preparing his attack plans; the lawyer said AI, notably ChatGPT, had influenced his client's behaviour and that the radicalisation was very superficial. Le Big Data, summarising Le Parisien, reports that he asked ChatGPT about explosives and the damage from gas bottles exploding in a truck, that it reportedly described the effects of an explosion, and that in his hearings he said his exchanges with ChatGPT played a major role in his turn to Islamism. He is also reported as saying that it always seemed to agree with him.","incidentDate":"2025-09-01","incidentKind":"single_event","incidentDatePrecision":"month","exposurePattern":"repeated_interactions","reportedDate":"2025-10-29","aiSystem":"ChatGPT, as named by Le Parisien and confirmed by the teenager's lawyer","aiProduct":"ChatGPT (reported)","aiCompany":"OpenAI","severity":"high","verificationStatus":"credible","harmCategories":["third_party_harm_facilitation"],"harmOutcomes":["legal_harm","loss_of_liberty"],"harmOutcomeSummary":"The teenager was charged with criminal terrorist conspiracy and detained pending investigation. In his hearings, as Le Parisien reports through Le Big Data, he said his exchanges with ChatGPT played a major role in his radicalisation; his lawyer says AI influenced his behaviour and calls the radicalisation very superficial. No one was harmed by the alleged plans.","frameworkFacets":[],"pathwayDirection":"both","causationStatus":"alleged","participantUsersAffectedMin":1,"otherPeopleHarmedMin":0,"affectedCountStatus":"exact","affectedCountEvidence":"One counted person, the detained teenager who used ChatGPT. The intended targets were not harmed and are not counted.","victimAgeRange":"minor","jurisdiction":"FR","platformType":"assistant","outcomeType":"criminal_charges","outcomeStatus":"ongoing","primarySourceUrl":"https://www.francebleu.fr/infos/faits-divers-justice/le-lyceen-de-la-sarthe-ecroue-pour-association-de-malfaiteurs-terroristes-a-utilise-chatgpt-pour-son-projet-d-attentat-8244309","primarySourceLabel":"ICI Maine (formerly France Bleu), 29 Oct 2025: Le lycéen de la Sarthe écroué pour association de malfaiteurs terroriste a utilisé ChatGPT","firstPublishedAt":"2026-03-23T06:59:29.691732+00:00","updatedAt":"2026-10-22T05:36:11.78921+00:00","scopeVersion":"facts-v3","tags":["france","chatgpt","openai","terrorism-charge","radicalisation","minor","pre-trial-detention"]},{"id":"2025-india-alleged-ai-image-blackmail-death","caseFacts":{"claims":[{"id":"c1","status":"corroborated","evidence":[{"locator":"'A 19-year-old college student committed suicide here after he was allegedly blackmailed with AI-generated obscene pictures and videos'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"},{"locator":"'Police said a 19-year-old student was coerced for ₹20,000 by suspects who made AI-morphed images'; 'adding that the student succumbed during treatment'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s3"},{"locator":"'When his condition worsened, his family rushed him to the hospital, where he died during treatment.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s4"},{"locator":"'19 वर्षीय युवक ने AI (आर्टिफिशियल इंटेलिजेंस) तकनीक से बनाई गई अश्लील फोटो और वीडियो के जरिए ब्लैकमेलिंग से तंग आकर सुसाइड कर लिया।'; 'इलाज के दौरान उसने दम तोड़ दिया।'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"A 19-year-old student in Haryana died during hospital treatment in October 2025 after taking his own life.","causal_attribution":"The death and the hospital treatment are stated by the father (s1, s2, s4) and separately by the district police spokesperson (s3) and an investigating officer (s4). The classification as suicide is the family and police account; no post-mortem finding is quoted."},{"id":"c2","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'After hacking the phone, some people used artificial intelligence (AI) to create nude photos and videos of'; 'They sent these fake photos and videos via WhatsApp and demanded approximately Rs 20,000 from'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"},{"locator":"'फोन हैक करने के बाद कुछ लोगों ने आर्टिफिशियल इंटेलिजेंस (AI) का इस्तेमाल करके'; 'की न्यूड फोटो और वीडियो बना दी।'; 'इन फर्जी तस्वीरों और वीडियो को वॉट्सऐप पर भेजकर आरोपियों ने'; 'लगभग 20 हजार रुपए की मांग की।'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"'A 19-year-old man died by suicide after he was allegedly blackmailed with his three sisters'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s4"}],"assertion":"The student's father alleged that, after the student's phone was hacked about two weeks earlier, people used AI to make nude photos and videos of the student and three family members, sent them to him over WhatsApp and demanded about Rs 20,000.","causal_attribution":"One origin: the father's account, carried by three outlets. The number of depicted family members (three) is stated in s2 and s4."},{"id":"c3","status":"corroborated","evidence":[{"locator":"'after being blackmailed by two unidentified suspects who allegedly created and threatened to release AI-generated morphed pictures and videos of him, police said on Sunday'; 'They had created morphed pictures and images of the deceased, along with his sisters'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s3"},{"locator":"'This case is a serious example of cybercrime and the misuse of AI technology.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"},{"locator":"'उन्होंने कहा कि यह मामला साइबर अपराध और AI तकनीक के गलत इस्तेमाल का गंभीर उदाहरण है।'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"'said that the case is a \"serious example of cybercrime and the misuse of AI technology\"'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s4"}],"assertion":"Police described the images as AI-made or AI-morphed and said the suspects used them to coerce the student; the station house officer called the case misuse of AI technology.","causal_attribution":"Two police origins: the district police account and a second station's official (s3), and the station house officer's statement (s1, s2, s4, one origin). Neither discloses the technical basis for calling the images AI-made; the phone was sent for forensic examination."},{"id":"c4","status":"corroborated","evidence":[{"locator":"'Based on the family’s complaint, an FIR was registered against the accused under relevant Sections of the BNS'; 'phone has been sent to a forensic lab for examination.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"},{"locator":"'An FIR has been registered against the two unidentified suspects under relevant provisions of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS).'; 'Police said they are examining his phone records, chat history, and social media accounts'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s3"},{"locator":"'The mobile phone is being examined.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s4"}],"assertion":"An FIR was registered on the family's complaint under the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, and police sent the student's phone for forensic examination.","causal_attribution":"Stated by police in s2, s3 and s4. The charges are given only as relevant sections of the BNS; no abetment charge, arrest or chargesheet is reported in the inspected sources."},{"id":"c5","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'An FIR has been registered against the two unidentified suspects'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s3"},{"locator":"'accused her brother-in-law of being involved in the incident'; 'the police filed a case against two people.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s4"},{"locator":"'an FIR was registered against the accused under relevant Sections of the BNS'","relation":"context","source_id":"s2"}],"assertion":"The reports differ on who was accused: one says the FIR names two unidentified suspects, others say the family named suspects, and the mother accused a relative.","causal_attribution":"The conflict is preserved. No suspect account is independently confirmed and none is named here."}],"effects":[{"label":"death after blackmail with reportedly AI-made sexual images of the student and family members","claim_id":"c2","direction":"negative"}],"sources":[{"id":"s1","url":"https://www.bhaskar.com/local/haryana/faridabad/ballabgarh/news/faridabad-ai-video-blackmail-youth-suicide-case-update-haryana-136258595.html","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"hi","translation_note":"Read in Hindi on 2026-10-13 (live page, HTTP 200; published 26 October 2025). Translation by the research agent (an AI); no human translator reviewed it. Ground report quoting the student's father and the station house officer.","independence_group":"bhaskar"},{"id":"s2","url":"https://www.tribuneindia.com/news/haryana/19-year-old-dies-by-suicide-after-being-blackmailed-with-ai-generated-obscene-photos-of-sisters/","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"Read in English on 2026-10-13 (live page, HTTP 200; published 27 October 2025, staff byline). Quotes police, the father and the station house officer.","independence_group":"tribune"},{"id":"s3","url":"https://www.hindustantimes.com/cities/gurugram-news/faridabad-teen-dies-by-suicide-after-deepfake-blackmail-two-booked-101761533914716.html","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"Read in English on 2026-10-13 (live page, HTTP 200; published 27 October 2025). Quotes the district police public relations officer and an official at a second police station.","independence_group":"hindustan-times"},{"id":"s4","url":"https://www.ndtv.com/india-news/faridabad-man-blackmailed-with-ai-generated-pics-of-3-sisters-he-dies-by-suicide-9522971","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"Read in English on 2026-10-13 from an Internet Archive capture (live page HTTP 403). Published 27 October 2025 with inputs from a local reporter. The headline says lakhs of rupees while the body says Rs 20,000; the body figure is used. The station house officer quote matches the wording in s1 and s2 and is treated as the same statement.","independence_group":"ndtv"}],"version":1,"ai_roles":["others_use"],"contexts":["everyday_life","privacy","justice"],"unknowns":["The AI tool used to make the images is not named in any inspected source, and police did not say how they established that the images were AI-made.","Whether anyone was arrested or charged after 27 October 2025 is unknown; no later coverage was found on 2026-10-13.","The suspect accounts conflict across the reports and none is confirmed.","The period of blackmail is given as ten days by police and about two weeks by the father.","Whether the images were shown to anyone other than the student is not reported.","The family members' ages are not stated."],"geography":{"basis":"Event: a city in Haryana, India, where police registered the case and the student died in hospital (s1, s2, s3, s4); the affected family members are reported there as well. No court proceeding is reported; a police station and a forensic laboratory are not courts.","court_countries":[],"event_countries":["IN"],"affected_person_countries":["IN"]},"publication":{"basis":"Published as a core case (depicted_or_impersonated): the student was depicted in sexual images that police and his father describe as AI-made and that were used to blackmail him. Death rule: the death is stated by the father and separately by the district police spokesperson and an investigating officer, and the AI connection by the father and separately by two police sources, across The Tribune, Dainik Bhaskar, The Hindustan Times and NDTV. The AI attribution is reported and its technical basis undisclosed; the link between the blackmail and the death is the family and police account. The student, his college, his locality and his family are not named here.","reviewed_on":"2026-10-13"},"ai_involvement":{"basis":"The father said people used AI to make nude photos and videos of the student and three family members from a hacked phone and sent them to the student while demanding money (s1, s2, s4). Police told The Hindustan Times the suspects created AI-generated morphed pictures and videos of him, and the station house officer called the case misuse of AI technology (s1, s2, s3, s4). The student was depicted in the images used to blackmail him before his death. The tool is not named, and police did not disclose the technical basis for the AI attribution; the phone was sent for forensic examination.","status":"supported"},"person_relations":["depicted_or_impersonated"]},"name":"Indian student dies after blackmail with sexual images police and family call AI-made","summary":"A 19-year-old student in Haryana, India, died in October 2025 after being blackmailed with nude images of himself and family members. His father says the images were made with AI from a hacked phone, and police called the case misuse of AI technology. The tool and the suspects remain unidentified in the reporting.","incidentDate":"2025-10-01","incidentEndDate":"2025-10-25","incidentKind":"bounded_series","incidentDatePrecision":"month","exposurePattern":"repeated_interactions","reportedDate":"2025-10-26","aiSystem":"Unidentified AI tool used to make nude photos and videos (not named in reporting)","aiProduct":"Unidentified image and video tool","severity":"critical","verificationStatus":"credible","harmCategories":[],"harmOutcomes":["death","psychological_distress","exploitation_or_abuse"],"harmOutcomeSummary":"A 19-year-old student died after blackmail with sexual images that his father and police describe as AI-made; three family members were depicted in the images used against him (family and police accounts).","frameworkFacets":[],"causationStatus":"supported","participantUsersAffectedMin":0,"otherPeopleHarmedMin":4,"affectedCountStatus":"exact","affectedCountEvidence":"Four people harmed through others' use of AI: the student, who was depicted and blackmailed and died, and three family members depicted in the sexual images used in the blackmail (The Tribune and NDTV give the number). The suspects are not counted, and the student is not reported to have used AI himself.","victimAgeRange":"adult","jurisdiction":"IN","platformType":"other","outcomeType":"criminal_charges","outcomeStatus":"unknown","primarySourceUrl":"https://www.tribuneindia.com/news/haryana/19-year-old-dies-by-suicide-after-being-blackmailed-with-ai-generated-obscene-photos-of-sisters/","primarySourceLabel":"The Tribune, 27 October 2025","firstPublishedAt":"2026-03-09T05:43:04.019438+00:00","updatedAt":"2026-10-13T03:04:39.704332+00:00","scopeVersion":"facts-v3","tags":["criminal","suicide","deepfake","sextortion","ncii","india","others-use"]},{"id":"2026-seoul-chatgpt-murders","caseFacts":{"claims":[{"id":"deaths","status":"corroborated","evidence":[{"locator":"is accused of killing two men by giving them drinks containing benzodiazepines","relation":"supports","source_id":"kh"},{"locator":"another man in his 20s","relation":"supports","source_id":"kh"},{"locator":"on charges of killing two men at motels in Seoul’s Gangbuk-gu","relation":"supports","source_id":"kh"},{"locator":"서울 강북구 모텔 등에서 약물이 든 음료로 남성 2명을 살해한","relation":"supports","source_id":"verdict"},{"locator":"20대 남성 3명에게 향정신성의약품이 섞인 음료를 건네 2명을 숨지게 하고 1명을 의식불명 상태에 빠뜨린 혐의를 받는다","relation":"supports","source_id":"sisa"}],"assertion":"Two men in their twenties died after drinking beverages containing sedative drugs that the accused gave them at motels in Gangbuk-gu, Seoul.","causal_attribution":"The police account and the first-instance court both report the deaths. Neither establishes that ChatGPT caused them."},{"id":"police_timeline","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"took place at 9:24 p.m. on Jan. 28","relation":"supports","source_id":"kh"},{"locator":"The man was found dead the following day at around 6 p.m. on a bed inside the room.","relation":"supports","source_id":"kh"},{"locator":"Using the same method, she allegedly killed another man in his 20s on Feb. 9","relation":"supports","source_id":"kh"},{"locator":"He survived and was not in a life-threatening condition.","relation":"supports","source_id":"kh"}],"assertion":"Police said the first man was found dead in a motel room the day after the accused entered it with him on the evening of 28 January 2026, that the second man died on 9 February 2026, and that a man she was dating survived a drugged drink in December 2025.","causal_attribution":"Police dates for the series. They do not bear on the chatbot’s causal role."},{"id":"police_queries","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"The police investigation revealed that she had entered questions into ChatGPT about the risks of administering the drugs beforehand","relation":"supports","source_id":"kh"},{"locator":"What happens if you take sleeping pills with alcohol?","relation":"supports","source_id":"kh"},{"locator":"“Could it be fatal?”","relation":"supports","source_id":"kh"},{"locator":"was referred to prosecutors under detention on murder charges rather than on charges of inflicting bodily injury resulting in death","relation":"supports","source_id":"kh"},{"locator":"as police concluded that she had intent to kill based on her online history","relation":"supports","source_id":"kh"},{"locator":"repeatedly asked questions related to drugs on ChatGPT","relation":"supports","source_id":"fortune"}],"assertion":"Seoul Gangbuk police said in February 2026 that the accused had asked ChatGPT beforehand about the risks of the drugs, including what happens when sleeping pills are taken with alcohol and whether it could be fatal, and that they referred her for murder rather than a lesser charge because her online history showed intent.","causal_attribution":"The police treated the history as evidence of intent. This statement reports queries, without the chatbot’s replies."},{"id":"openai_statement","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"a spokesperson for OpenAI told Fortune","relation":"supports","source_id":"fortune"},{"locator":"South Korean police do not allege the chatbot provided any other responses other than factual ones","relation":"supports","source_id":"fortune"}],"assertion":"Fortune reported an OpenAI spokesperson’s statement that the questions followed a factual line of questioning, which Fortune said meant they would not raise the alarms that statements of self-harm would. Fortune also wrote that South Korean police did not allege any chatbot responses other than factual ones.","causal_attribution":"The company statement concerns how the system treated the queries. It does not address the later replies reported from the judgment."},{"id":"indictment_replies","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"공소장에 따르면","relation":"supports","source_id":"indict"},{"locator":"“수면제 많이 먹으면 어떻게 돼?”, “수면제 많이 먹는다고 그 사람이 죽어?”","relation":"supports","source_id":"indict"},{"locator":"“그럴 수 있다”는 취지의 답변을 거듭 받았다","relation":"supports","source_id":"indict"},{"locator":"음료를 마셨고 결국 숨졌다","relation":"supports","source_id":"indict"},{"locator":"바로 그날 밤 20대 남성은 서울 강북구의 한 모텔에서","relation":"supports","source_id":"indict"},{"locator":"약물의 양을 두 배 정도 늘려 첫 번째 사망자에게 건넸을 것","relation":"supports","source_id":"indict"}],"assertion":"Edaily reported that, according to the indictment, the accused asked ChatGPT what happens when many sleeping pills are taken and whether the person would die, repeatedly received answers that this could happen, and that on the same night a man in his twenties drank the drugged beverage she gave him at a Gangbuk motel and died. Prosecutors alleged that after these answers she roughly doubled the dose given to the first man who died.","causal_attribution":"This is the prosecution’s allegation about how the replies related to the first death. No inspected source independent of the prosecution supports the dose allegation."},{"id":"judgment_lethality_reply","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"또 다른 피해자를 만나기 전","relation":"supports","source_id":"sbs"},{"locator":"\"수면제 많이 먹는다고 사람이 죽냐\"고 물었고","relation":"supports","source_id":"sbs"},{"locator":"\"최악의 경우 사망할 수 있다\"는 답을 들었습니다","relation":"supports","source_id":"sbs"},{"locator":"과실 치사나 유기 치사의 경우 법정 형이 얼마나 되는지도 물은","relation":"supports","source_id":"sbs"},{"locator":"같은 날 의식을 잃은 피해자를 남겨둔 채 혼자 모텔을 빠져나왔고, 피해자는 숨졌습니다","relation":"supports","source_id":"sbs"},{"locator":"챗GPT는 최악의 경우 사망할 수 있다는 취지로 답했다","relation":"supports","source_id":"mt"},{"locator":"이에 챗GPT는 “최악의 경우 사망할 수 있다”는 답을 내놨다","relation":"supports","source_id":"herald"},{"locator":"과실치사나 유기치사의 법정형도 물었던 것으로 나타났다","relation":"supports","source_id":"mt"}],"assertion":"SBS reported that the written first-instance judgment records that in January 2026, before meeting another man, the accused asked ChatGPT whether taking many sleeping pills can kill a person and was told that death was possible in the worst case. She also asked about the statutory sentences for negligent homicide and abandonment resulting in death, and the same day left the man unconscious at a motel, where he died.","causal_attribution":"Money Today and Herald Business relay the SBS report; all three rest on the same judgment. The reports do not say the reply caused the killings."},{"id":"judgment_excerpt_reply","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"술과 함께 복용 시 호흡 마비로 인한 사망 위험이 매우 높으므로 즉시 119 신고가 필요하다","relation":"supports","source_id":"khan"},{"locator":"“수면제 많이 먹는다고 그 사람이 죽어?”라고 되물으며","relation":"supports","source_id":"khan"},{"locator":"서울북부지법의 판결문 일부","relation":"supports","source_id":"khan"}],"assertion":"Kyunghyang Shinmun, citing a judgment excerpt supplied by the court, reported that when the accused asked ChatGPT what happens if many sleeping pills are taken, it replied that taking them with alcohol carried a very high risk of death from respiratory paralysis and that 119 must be called immediately, after which she asked whether the person would die.","causal_attribution":"The reported reply combined a lethality warning with emergency advice. The feature calls generative AI a crime accomplice in its headline; the court excerpt does not attribute the death to the reply."},{"id":"judgment_119_replies","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"술을 마시기 전날인 지난 1월9일","relation":"supports","source_id":"tsisa"},{"locator":"바닥에 두고 가거나 모텔에서 재우면 안 되느냐","relation":"supports","source_id":"tsisa"},{"locator":"의식을 잃은 사람을 바닥에 두거나 모텔에 혼자 재워서는 안 된다고 답했다","relation":"supports","source_id":"tsisa"},{"locator":"술과 약물을 함께 복용하면 질식이나 호흡정지가 발생할 수 있다는 경고도 덧붙였다","relation":"supports","source_id":"tsisa"},{"locator":"챗GPT는 일반적인 사례를 현재 상황에 적용해서는 안 된다며 119나 숙박업소 직원에게 즉시 연락하라고 재차 권고했다","relation":"supports","source_id":"tsisa"},{"locator":"그 뒤에도 경찰이나 119에 신고하지 않았다","relation":"supports","source_id":"tsisa"},{"locator":"119나 모텔 프런트에 즉시 연락하라고 거듭 권했다","relation":"supports","source_id":"fn"},{"locator":"약 30시간 뒤인 1월 12일 오전 5시 40분쯤","relation":"supports","source_id":"fn"}],"assertion":"Reports of the written judgment say that on 9 January 2026 the accused asked ChatGPT whether she could leave a man who collapsed while drinking on the floor or at a motel, and that ChatGPT told her to call 119, warned that alcohol with drugs could cause choking or respiratory arrest, and said an unconscious person must not be left alone. After she left a man unconscious at a lodging the next night and described his state, it again told her to contact 119 or the lodging staff immediately. She contacted neither, and CCTV showed him first leaving the room about 30 hours after she left.","causal_attribution":"The reported replies were protective, and the accused did not follow them. The judgment reports treat the exchange as evidence of what she knew; they do not attribute the harm to the replies."},{"id":"judgment_detection_queries","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"당시 교제하던","relation":"supports","source_id":"tsisa"},{"locator":"에게 약물이 든 음료를 먹여 의식을 잃게 한 뒤였다","relation":"supports","source_id":"tsisa"},{"locator":"약 8시간 동안 챗GPT에 약물검사와 성분 검출 가능성을 물었다","relation":"supports","source_id":"tsisa"},{"locator":"약물 섞인 음료를 마신 피해 남성이 의식을 잃고 병원으로 옮겨진 직후","relation":"supports","source_id":"sbs"},{"locator":"깨어난 피해자가 경찰에 신고하겠다는 취지로 말하자","relation":"supports","source_id":"sbs"},{"locator":"나를 의심하지 않을까","relation":"supports","source_id":"sbs"}],"assertion":"Reports of the written judgment say that after a man she was dating lost consciousness from a drugged drink in December 2025 and was taken to hospital, the accused spent about eight hours the next morning asking ChatGPT whether sleeping pills and antidepressants would show up in drug tests. After he said he would go to the police, she asked ChatGPT whether the police would suspect her.","causal_attribution":"These queries followed the December drugging. No reply content for them is reported."},{"id":"court_finding","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"무기징역을 선고하고 위치추적 전자장치 30년 부착을 명령했다","relation":"supports","source_id":"verdict"},{"locator":"반복적으로 챗GPT를 통해 약물의 위험성을 학습해가는 과정에서","relation":"supports","source_id":"verdict"},{"locator":"사망 결과를 충분히 예견하고 상당 수준 용인했다고 인정된다","relation":"supports","source_id":"verdict"},{"locator":"대화 내역만 기억하지 못한다는 주장은 납득하기 어렵다","relation":"supports","source_id":"verdict"},{"locator":"챗 GPT를 통해 의학적 근거를 학습한 점을 들어","relation":"supports","source_id":"mbc"},{"locator":"특히 반복적으로 주고받은 챗GPT를 통해 사망의 결과를 충분히 예견하고, 상당 수준 용인했다고 인정할 수 있다","relation":"supports","source_id":"newsis"},{"locator":"처음 음료를 사용할 당시엔 구체적 사망의 위험성을 인식하지 못했다고 보이지만","relation":"supports","source_id":"newsis"}],"assertion":"On 27 August 2026 the Seoul Northern District Court sentenced the accused to life imprisonment with a 30-year electronic monitoring order. It found that she did not appear to recognise the specific risk of death when she first used the drugged drinks, but that, in the course of repeatedly learning the danger of the drugs through ChatGPT, she foresaw and accepted the deaths (intent in the form of dolus eventualis), and rejected her claim not to remember the ChatGPT conversations.","causal_attribution":"The court used the chatbot exchanges as evidence of the accused’s knowledge and intent. It did not find that ChatGPT caused or instructed the killings."},{"id":"families_lawyer","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"재판부가 판결문에서 이 사건을 AI와 약물을 결합한 연쇄살인 범죄로 규정했다","relation":"supports","source_id":"verdict"},{"locator":"챗GPT 검색기록으로 피고인의 고의 부인 주장이 사실상 탄핵됐고","relation":"supports","source_id":"verdict"}],"assertion":"After the verdict, the lawyer for the victims’ families said the written judgment defined the case as a serial murder combining AI and drugs, and that the ChatGPT search records had in effect refuted the accused’s denial of intent.","causal_attribution":"This is the families’ lawyer’s characterisation of the judgment, which was not inspected. It does not establish that the chatbot caused the deaths."},{"id":"other_counts","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"검찰이 지난 4월 특수상해와 마약류관리법 위반 혐의로","relation":"supports","source_id":"appeal_pros"},{"locator":"지난해 10월부터 지난 1월까지 남성 3명에게 약물이 든 음료를 건네","relation":"supports","source_id":"appeal_pros"},{"locator":"피해자는 기존 3명을 포함해 총 6명으로 늘었다","relation":"supports","source_id":"appeal_pros"},{"locator":"다만 피해자 6명 중 1명에 대한 특수상해 혐의는 무죄로 판단했다","relation":"supports","source_id":"sisa"},{"locator":"지난해 10월 25일 한 음식점에서 발생한 특수상해 사건은 제출된 증거들만으로는 증명이 부족하다고 봐 무죄로 판단했다","relation":"supports","source_id":"newsis"}],"assertion":"Prosecutors added charges in April 2026 that the accused injured three more men with drugged drinks between October 2025 and January 2026, bringing the alleged victims to six; the court acquitted her on the count concerning one of the six, an October 2025 incident at a restaurant.","causal_attribution":"These counts are part of the criminal case. Only the December 2025 and January 2026 survivors are connected to the chatbot exchanges in the inspected reports."},{"id":"appeals","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"검찰이 사형을 구형했다","relation":"supports","source_id":"closing"},{"locator":"지난 28일 항소장을 제출했다","relation":"supports","source_id":"appeal_def"},{"locator":"사실오인·법리오해와 양형부당을 이유로 이날 항소를 제기했다고 2일 밝혔다","relation":"supports","source_id":"appeal_mk"},{"locator":"항소심 첫 공판기일을 진행한다","relation":"supports","source_id":"newsis"},{"locator":"서울고법 형사7부(부장판사 구회근)는 다음 달 21일","relation":"supports","source_id":"metro"}],"assertion":"Prosecutors had sought the death penalty. The accused appealed on 28 August 2026 and prosecutors appealed on 2 September 2026, citing errors of fact and law and an unduly light sentence. The Seoul High Court scheduled the first appeal hearing for 21 October 2026.","causal_attribution":"The appeal proceedings do not bear on the chatbot’s causal role."}],"effects":[{"label":"Two men died after drinking beverages containing sedatives that the accused gave them.","claim_id":"deaths","direction":"negative"},{"label":"A man was left alone unconscious in a lodging after the accused ignored ChatGPT’s advice to call 119; CCTV first showed him leaving the room about 30 hours later.","claim_id":"judgment_119_replies","direction":"negative"}],"sources":[{"id":"kh","url":"https://www.koreaherald.com/article/10678557","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"English; no translation. Full article body inspected (navigation and related-story cards excluded). Reports the Seoul Gangbuk Police Station statement; published 19 February 2026.","independence_group":"gangbuk_police"},{"id":"fortune","url":"https://fortune.com/2026/03/02/seoul-south-korea-woman-chatgpt-two-murders/","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"English; no translation. Full body inspected. Its account of the police findings relays the Korea Herald report, so it shares that group; the OpenAI spokesperson statement is Fortune’s own reporting.","independence_group":"gangbuk_police"},{"id":"indict","url":"https://www.edaily.co.kr/News/Read?newsId=04969206645384632","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"ko","translation_note":"Korean; passages translated by the research agent (an AI); no human translation. Body inspected. Edaily reports the prosecutors’ indictment as obtained through a National Assembly member’s office (March 2026).","independence_group":"indictment"},{"id":"closing","url":"https://v.daum.net/v/20260818164848094","kind":"court_reporting","access":"read","language":"ko","translation_note":"Korean; passages translated by the research agent (an AI); no human translation. Edaily article read on Daum; body inspected. Closing hearing of 18 August 2026.","independence_group":"first_instance_trial"},{"id":"verdict","url":"https://v.daum.net/v/20260827164152936","kind":"court_reporting","access":"read","language":"ko","translation_note":"Korean; passages translated by the research agent (an AI); no human translation. Edaily article read on Daum; full body inspected. Reports the court’s pronouncement of 27 August 2026 and the victims’ families’ lawyer.","independence_group":"first_instance_trial"},{"id":"mbc","url":"https://v.daum.net/v/20260827170906280","kind":"court_reporting","access":"read","language":"ko","translation_note":"Korean; passages translated by the research agent (an AI); no human translation. MBC News item read on Daum; short body inspected in full. Same court pronouncement.","independence_group":"first_instance_trial"},{"id":"sisa","url":"https://www.sisajournal.com/news/articleView.html?idxno=385126","kind":"court_reporting","access":"read","language":"ko","translation_note":"Korean; passages translated by the research agent (an AI); no human translation. Sisa Journal; full body inspected. Same court pronouncement, including the acquittal on one count.","independence_group":"first_instance_trial"},{"id":"appeal_def","url":"https://v.daum.net/v/20260831165352657","kind":"court_reporting","access":"read","language":"ko","translation_note":"Korean; passages translated by the research agent (an AI); no human translation. JoongAng Ilbo article read on Daum; body inspected. Reports the accused’s appeal filed 28 August 2026, citing legal sources.","independence_group":"appeal_filings"},{"id":"appeal_pros","url":"https://v.daum.net/v/20260902145750822","kind":"court_reporting","access":"read","language":"ko","translation_note":"Korean; passages translated by the research agent (an AI); no human translation. The Fact article read on Daum; body inspected (related-story list excluded). Reports the prosecution appeal of 2 September 2026.","independence_group":"appeal_filings"},{"id":"appeal_mk","url":"https://v.daum.net/v/20260902150004935","kind":"court_reporting","access":"read","language":"ko","translation_note":"Korean; passages translated by the research agent (an AI); no human translation. Maeil Business Newspaper article read on Daum; body inspected. Reports the prosecution’s own announcement of its appeal.","independence_group":"appeal_filings"},{"id":"sbs","url":"https://news.sbs.co.kr/news/endPage.do?news_id=N1008743638","kind":"local_tv_news","access":"read","language":"ko","translation_note":"Korean; passages translated by the research agent (an AI); no human translation. SBS News report of 8 September 2026 on the written first-instance judgment; body inspected. The judgment itself was not inspected.","independence_group":"first_instance_trial"},{"id":"mt","url":"https://www.mt.co.kr/society/2026/09/09/2026090909103038416","kind":"news_relay","access":"read","language":"ko","translation_note":"Korean; passages translated by the research agent (an AI); no human translation. Money Today; body inspected. States that it relays the SBS report of the written judgment.","independence_group":"first_instance_trial"},{"id":"herald","url":"https://biz.heraldcorp.com/article/10867393","kind":"news_relay","access":"read","language":"ko","translation_note":"Korean; passages translated by the research agent (an AI); no human translation. Herald Business; body inspected (unrelated article teasers excluded). States that it relays the SBS report of the written judgment.","independence_group":"first_instance_trial"},{"id":"tsisa","url":"https://www.tsisalaw.com/news/article.html?no=30482","kind":"court_reporting","access":"read","language":"ko","translation_note":"Korean; passages translated by the research agent (an AI); no human translation. The Sisa Law, 9 September 2026; full body inspected. Reports the written judgment, citing legal sources.","independence_group":"first_instance_trial"},{"id":"fn","url":"https://www.fnnews.com/news/202609091211327986","kind":"news_relay","access":"read","language":"ko","translation_note":"Korean; passages translated by the research agent (an AI); no human translation. Financial News page carrying a News1-credited report of the written judgment, 9 September 2026; body inspected.","independence_group":"first_instance_trial"},{"id":"khan","url":"https://www.khan.co.kr/article/202609111728001/","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"ko","translation_note":"Korean; passages translated by the research agent (an AI); no human translation. Kyunghyang Shinmun feature, 11 September 2026; body inspected. Its account of a ChatGPT reply rests on a judgment excerpt supplied by the court.","independence_group":"first_instance_trial"},{"id":"newsis","url":"https://www.newsis.com/view/NISX20260930_0003808409","kind":"court_reporting","access":"read","language":"ko","translation_note":"Korean; passages translated by the research agent (an AI); no human translation. Newsis, 30 September 2026; body inspected (promotional links excluded). Reports the appeal hearing schedule and recaps the judgment.","independence_group":"appeal_schedule"},{"id":"metro","url":"https://www.metroseoul.co.kr/article/20260930500091","kind":"court_reporting","access":"read","language":"ko","translation_note":"Korean; passages translated by the research agent (an AI); no human translation. Metro Seoul, 30 September 2026; body inspected. Same appeal schedule from legal sources.","independence_group":"appeal_schedule"}],"version":1,"ai_roles":["others_use"],"contexts":["relationships","justice"],"unknowns":["The written judgment and the full ChatGPT transcripts were not inspected; the replies are known only through press quotation of the judgment and indictment.","The reports quote the January lethality reply in different words (SBS: death possible in the worst case; Kyunghyang: very high risk of death with alcohol, call 119), which may reflect different turns of the same conversation.","The prosecution allegation that the dose was doubled after the replies has no inspected support independent of the prosecution.","The Seoul High Court appeal had not been heard as of 6 October 2026."],"geography":{"basis":"The Korea Herald places the deaths at motels in Gangbuk-gu, Seoul. The trial took place at the Seoul Northern District Court and the appeal is before the Seoul High Court. Affected-person countries record where the harmed men were reported harmed, not their nationality.","court_countries":["KR"],"event_countries":["KR"],"affected_person_countries":["KR"]},"publication":{"basis":"The police account and the first-instance court each report the two deaths and the accused’s ChatGPT exchanges, and reports of the indictment and written judgment quote the chatbot’s replies on lethality and emergency help. The court used those exchanges to establish intent. Causation by the chatbot is not established, and both parties have appealed.","reviewed_on":"2026-10-06"},"ai_involvement":{"basis":"Police, the indictment and the first-instance court each describe the accused’s ChatGPT exchanges about the danger of the sedatives. Reports of the indictment and the written judgment state what ChatGPT answered: that many sleeping pills could kill a person, death being possible in the worst case, and, in other exchanges, that she must call 119 and not leave an unconscious man alone. The court relied on the exchanges to find that she foresaw and accepted the two deaths, and prosecutors allege she roughly doubled the dose after the lethality replies. The reports connect the replies to her knowledge when she acted; they do not establish that the chatbot caused the killings.","status":"supported"},"person_relations":["communicated_with"]},"metadataReview":{"version":1,"geography":{"basis":"The Korea Herald places the deaths at motels in Gangbuk-gu, Seoul. The trial took place at the Seoul Northern District Court and the appeal is before the Seoul High Court. Affected-person countries record where the harmed men were reported harmed, not their nationality.","evidence":[{"kind":"source_body","locator":"killing two men at motels in Seoul’s Gangbuk-gu","location":"https://www.koreaherald.com/article/10678557","supports":["event_countries"],"countries":["KR"]},{"kind":"source_body","locator":"killing two men at motels in Seoul’s Gangbuk-gu","location":"https://www.koreaherald.com/article/10678557","supports":["affected_person_countries"],"countries":["KR"]},{"kind":"source_body","locator":"서울북부지법 형사합의14부","location":"https://www.sisajournal.com/news/articleView.html?idxno=385126","supports":["court_countries"],"countries":["KR"]}],"court_countries":["KR"],"event_countries":["KR"],"affected_person_countries":["KR"]},"unresolved":["The written first-instance judgment was not obtained; facts from it are taken from press reports."],"reviewed_on":"2026-10-06","source_reviews":[{"url":"https://www.koreaherald.com/article/10678557","notes":"English; no translation. Full article body inspected (navigation and related-story cards excluded). Reports the Seoul Gangbuk Police Station statement; published 19 February 2026.","access":"read","language":"en"},{"url":"https://fortune.com/2026/03/02/seoul-south-korea-woman-chatgpt-two-murders/","notes":"English; no translation. Full body inspected. Its account of the police findings relays the Korea Herald report, so it shares that group; the OpenAI spokesperson statement is Fortune’s own reporting.","access":"read","language":"en"},{"url":"https://www.edaily.co.kr/News/Read?newsId=04969206645384632","notes":"Korean; passages translated by the research agent (an AI); no human translation. Body inspected. Edaily reports the prosecutors’ indictment as obtained through a National Assembly member’s office (March 2026).","access":"read","language":"ko"},{"url":"https://v.daum.net/v/20260818164848094","notes":"Korean; passages translated by the research agent (an AI); no human translation. Edaily article read on Daum; body inspected. Closing hearing of 18 August 2026.","access":"read","language":"ko"},{"url":"https://v.daum.net/v/20260827164152936","notes":"Korean; passages translated by the research agent (an AI); no human translation. Edaily article read on Daum; full body inspected. Reports the court’s pronouncement of 27 August 2026 and the victims’ families’ lawyer.","access":"read","language":"ko"},{"url":"https://v.daum.net/v/20260827170906280","notes":"Korean; passages translated by the research agent (an AI); no human translation. MBC News item read on Daum; short body inspected in full. Same court pronouncement.","access":"read","language":"ko"},{"url":"https://www.sisajournal.com/news/articleView.html?idxno=385126","notes":"Korean; passages translated by the research agent (an AI); no human translation. Sisa Journal; full body inspected. Same court pronouncement, including the acquittal on one count.","access":"read","language":"ko"},{"url":"https://v.daum.net/v/20260831165352657","notes":"Korean; passages translated by the research agent (an AI); no human translation. JoongAng Ilbo article read on Daum; body inspected. Reports the accused’s appeal filed 28 August 2026, citing legal sources.","access":"read","language":"ko"},{"url":"https://v.daum.net/v/20260902145750822","notes":"Korean; passages translated by the research agent (an AI); no human translation. The Fact article read on Daum; body inspected (related-story list excluded). Reports the prosecution appeal of 2 September 2026.","access":"read","language":"ko"},{"url":"https://v.daum.net/v/20260902150004935","notes":"Korean; passages translated by the research agent (an AI); no human translation. Maeil Business Newspaper article read on Daum; body inspected. Reports the prosecution’s own announcement of its appeal.","access":"read","language":"ko"},{"url":"https://news.sbs.co.kr/news/endPage.do?news_id=N1008743638","notes":"Korean; passages translated by the research agent (an AI); no human translation. SBS News report of 8 September 2026 on the written first-instance judgment; body inspected. The judgment itself was not inspected.","access":"read","language":"ko"},{"url":"https://www.mt.co.kr/society/2026/09/09/2026090909103038416","notes":"Korean; passages translated by the research agent (an AI); no human translation. Money Today; body inspected. States that it relays the SBS report of the written judgment.","access":"read","language":"ko"},{"url":"https://biz.heraldcorp.com/article/10867393","notes":"Korean; passages translated by the research agent (an AI); no human translation. Herald Business; body inspected (unrelated article teasers excluded). States that it relays the SBS report of the written judgment.","access":"read","language":"ko"},{"url":"https://www.tsisalaw.com/news/article.html?no=30482","notes":"Korean; passages translated by the research agent (an AI); no human translation. The Sisa Law, 9 September 2026; full body inspected. Reports the written judgment, citing legal sources.","access":"read","language":"ko"},{"url":"https://www.fnnews.com/news/202609091211327986","notes":"Korean; passages translated by the research agent (an AI); no human translation. Financial News page carrying a News1-credited report of the written judgment, 9 September 2026; body inspected.","access":"read","language":"ko"},{"url":"https://www.khan.co.kr/article/202609111728001/","notes":"Korean; passages translated by the research agent (an AI); no human translation. Kyunghyang Shinmun feature, 11 September 2026; body inspected. Its account of a ChatGPT reply rests on a judgment excerpt supplied by the court.","access":"read","language":"ko"},{"url":"https://www.newsis.com/view/NISX20260930_0003808409","notes":"Korean; passages translated by the research agent (an AI); no human translation. Newsis, 30 September 2026; body inspected (promotional links excluded). Reports the appeal hearing schedule and recaps the judgment.","access":"read","language":"ko"},{"url":"https://www.metroseoul.co.kr/article/20260930500091","notes":"Korean; passages translated by the research agent (an AI); no human translation. Metro Seoul, 30 September 2026; body inspected. Same appeal schedule from legal sources.","access":"read","language":"ko"}]},"name":"Seoul court cites a woman’s ChatGPT exchanges on sedative lethality as evidence of intent in two motel drink-spiking murders","summary":"A Seoul district court convicted a woman at first instance in August 2026 of killing two men with drugged drinks at motels in early 2026 and sentenced her to life imprisonment. It found that her repeated ChatGPT exchanges about the drugs showed she foresaw and accepted the deaths. Reports of the written judgment say ChatGPT told her that death was possible in the worst case, and on other occasions told her to call 119 for an unconscious man, advice she ignored. Both sides have appealed. The court did not find that the chatbot caused the killings.","incidentDate":"2025-12-01","incidentEndDate":"2026-02-09","incidentKind":"bounded_series","incidentDatePrecision":"range","exposurePattern":"repeated_interactions","reportedDate":"2026-02-19","aiSystem":"ChatGPT","aiProduct":"ChatGPT","aiCompany":"OpenAI","severity":"critical","verificationStatus":"verified","harmCategories":[],"harmOutcomes":["death","physical_injury","harm_to_others"],"harmOutcomeSummary":"Two men died and two more were left unconscious after drinking drugged beverages the accused gave them. The court cited her ChatGPT exchanges as evidence of intent; it did not find that the chatbot caused the harm.","frameworkFacets":["P1d","P5d"],"pathwayDirection":"outward","causationStatus":"unclear","participantUsersAffectedMin":0,"otherPeopleHarmedMin":4,"affectedCountStatus":"documented_minimum","affectedCountEvidence":"Counts the two men who died and two surviving men whom the inspected reports connect to the ChatGPT exchanges: the man drugged in December 2025, whose condition and drug-test results the accused asked ChatGPT about afterwards, and the man left unconscious in January 2026 after ChatGPT had advised her to call 119. The court also convicted on an injury count concerning another man; no inspected source connects that count to the exchanges. The accused’s own sentence is not counted.","victimAgeRange":"adult","jurisdiction":"KR","platformType":"assistant","outcomeType":"criminal_charges","outcomeStatus":"ongoing","primarySourceUrl":"https://www.koreaherald.com/article/10678557","primarySourceLabel":"The Korea Herald, 19 February 2026","firstPublishedAt":"2026-03-09T05:43:02.612378+00:00","updatedAt":"2026-10-06T03:09:54.663444+00:00","scopeVersion":"facts-v3","tags":["criminal","adult","murder","chatgpt","openai","south-korea","kr"]},{"id":"2025-hku-deepfake-scandal","caseFacts":{"claims":[{"id":"c1","status":"corroborated","evidence":[{"locator":"'a University of Hong Kong (HKU) law student fabricated pornographic deepfakes of at least 20 women'; 'no allegation so far that the student spread the deepfake images'; 'a friend discovered the images on the student's laptop'.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"'Around 20 to 30 women... were affected'; 'in February, the student had admitted to using screenshots of the social media accounts... to generate pornographic images using free online artificial intelligence software'; 'there were 700 images involved - including deepfakes as well as unedited images'.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s3"},{"locator":"'The images were organized into folders named after the victims, totaling 700+ images'; 'discovered on his laptop reported to the university in February'; 'not known to have been widely distributed'.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"}],"assertion":"In February 2025 an HKU law student was found to have used free online AI software to make indecent/deepfake images of some 20 to 30 women (about 700 image files including deepfakes and unedited saved photos), taken from their social-media accounts; there was no allegation he distributed them.","causal_attribution":"The victims' Instagram account (carried by HKFP and NBC) and AFP reporting (CBS); the 700 figure is images, and outlets vary between 'at least 20' and '20 to 30' women."},{"id":"c2","status":"corroborated","evidence":[{"locator":"'The University has already issued him a warning letter and demanded him a formal apology'; the 60-word apology letter; 'class adjustments'.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"},{"locator":"'HKU proposed a verbal reprimand and warning letter'; the ~60-word apology 'most victims found... insincere'.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s3"},{"locator":"'The university said it had issued a warning letter to the student and told him to apologise'; lawmakers/advocates' criticism.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s4"}],"assertion":"HKU initially issued a warning letter and demanded an apology (about 60 words, shown to victims in April 2025), and made class adjustments; the response drew wide criticism after victims went public on 12 July 2025.","causal_attribution":"HKU statements and the victims' account, carried by three outlets."},{"id":"c3","status":"corroborated","evidence":[{"locator":"'Hong Kong's Office of the Privacy Commissioner for Personal Data said Tuesday... has begun a criminal investigation into the incident'.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"'The probe, announced Tuesday by the Office of the Privacy Commissioner for Personal Data'.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"}],"assertion":"Hong Kong's Privacy Commissioner opened a criminal investigation on 15 July 2025.","causal_attribution":"PCPD announcement, 15 July 2025."},{"id":"c4","status":"documented","evidence":[{"locator":"'私隱專員公署今日（17 日）宣布，因證據不足未能進一步跟進... 由於未有受害人願意提供進一步資料，目前未有足夠證據提出起訴'; 'AI 深度偽造技術（Deepfake）投訴... 5 宗'; new school/parent guidance.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s5"}],"assertion":"On 17 December 2025 the PCPD announced it was ending the investigation for insufficient evidence, as no victim was willing to provide further information, and released anti-deepfake guidance for schools and parents.","causal_attribution":"unwire.hk report of the PCPD press conference (Privacy Commissioner Ada Chung), 17 December 2025."},{"id":"c5","status":"corroborated","evidence":[{"locator":"'under section 159AAE of the Crimes Ordinance, it is unlawful to disseminate deepfake intimate images... without their consent'; creation not covered.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s3"},{"locator":"'the city's regulations covered acts of voyeurism and the publication or distribution of images - rather than their creation'.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s4"},{"locator":"'Hong Kong law only criminalises the distribution of intimate images... but not the generation of them'.","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"Hong Kong law criminalises publication or distribution of non-consensual intimate images (including AI-generated ones) but not their mere creation, leaving victims without a clear route to prosecution.","causal_attribution":"Legal analysis carried by three outlets and the victims' statement."}],"effects":[{"label":"some 20 to 30 women had indecent and deepfake images generated from their social-media photos; distress, shared classes with the accused, and no redress after the probe closed","claim_id":"c1","direction":"negative"}],"sources":[{"id":"s1","url":"https://www.cbsnews.com/news/ai-generated-porn-scandal-university-of-hong-kong/","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"Read in English on 2026-09-17 via the Internet Archive capture 20251105074941 (CBS live returns HTTP 406); datePublished 2025-07-15. CBS/AFP: at least 20 women, PCPD criminal probe, legal gap.","independence_group":"afp"},{"id":"s2","url":"https://www.nbcnews.com/world/asia/hong-kong-opens-criminal-probe-ai-generated-porn-scandal-citys-oldest-rcna219046","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"Read in English on 2026-09-17 (live, datePublished 2025-07-17). NBC News: 700+ images in victim-named folders, warning letter and 60-word apology, class adjustments, John Lee comment.","independence_group":"nbc"},{"id":"s3","url":"https://hongkongfp.com/2025/07/14/hku-student-who-allegedly-made-700-ai-generated-indecent-images-inc-of-classmates-gets-warning-letter/","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"Read in English on 2026-09-17 (live, datePublished 2025-07-13, correction 2025-07-14). HKFP: 20-30 women, February discovery, 700 images (deepfakes plus unedited), March disciplinary request, ragging analysis.","independence_group":"hkfp"},{"id":"s4","url":"https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/law-and-crime/article/3318047/hong-kong-should-ban-ai-generated-porn-protect-victims-ngo-and-lawmakers","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"Read in English on 2026-09-17 (live, datePublished 2025-07-13). SCMP: advocates and lawmakers on the creation-vs-distribution legal gap; Education Bureau comment.","independence_group":"scmp"},{"id":"s5","url":"https://unwire.hk/2025/12/17/hku-ai-deepfake-case-privacy-investigation-insufficient-evidence/fun-tech/","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"zh","translation_note":"Read in Chinese on 2026-09-17 (datePublished 2025-12-17). unwire.hk on the PCPD press conference: probe ended for insufficient evidence, no victim willing to provide further information, 20-30 victims, five deepfake complaints that year, new school/parent guidance. Model reading; no human bilingual review.","independence_group":"unwire"}],"version":1,"ai_roles":["others_use"],"contexts":["education","privacy","justice"],"unknowns":["The student is not identified beyond 'a male law student' and faced no prosecution; whether HKU took any further disciplinary action is not established.","The exact number of women is reported as 20 to 30 (NBC: 'more than a dozen'); the precise count is unresolved.","The creation start date is reported by The Standard as about May 2024 but is not firmly established in the sources read here.","Whether any victim later came forward with evidence after the December 2025 closure is not established."],"geography":{"basis":"Event: the University of Hong Kong; victims are HKU-connected women in Hong Kong (CBS, NBC, HKFP, SCMP). The PCPD is a regulator, not a court, and no prosecution followed, so court_countries is empty.","court_countries":[],"event_countries":["HK"],"affected_person_countries":["HK"]},"publication":{"basis":"Restored from the deletion of historical artifact rows and converted to facts-v3 under the 2026-09-15 charter, which brings non-consensual AI imagery and harmful artifacts into scope. Some 20 to 30 women had indecent AI images generated from their photos; the harm and the closed investigation are documented across CBS/AFP, NBC, HKFP, SCMP and unwire.hk. First-publication timestamp preserved.","reviewed_on":"2026-09-17"},"ai_involvement":{"basis":"Multiple outlets and the victims' own account report the student used free online AI software to generate indecent/deepfake images from the women's social-media photos; the student admitted using the software (per the victims' account carried by HKFP and NBC). The specific tools are not named.","status":"supported"},"person_relations":["depicted_or_impersonated"]},"name":"University of Hong Kong: a law student made about 700 indecent AI-generated images of some 20 to 30 classmates and teachers; the privacy watchdog opened then closed a criminal probe","summary":"In February 2025 a University of Hong Kong (HKU) law student was found, by friends who saw the files on his laptop, to have used free online AI software to make about 700 indecent and deepfake images of some 20 to 30 women, including university and former schoolmates and secondary-school teachers, using photos taken from their social media. Victims went public in July 2025, and HKU's initial response, a warning letter and a demand that he apologise, drew wide criticism. Hong Kong's Privacy Commissioner opened a criminal investigation on 15 July 2025 but announced on 17 December 2025 that it was ending the probe for insufficient evidence, as no victim was willing to provide further information. Hong Kong law criminalised distribution, not creation, of such images.","incidentDate":"2025-02-01","incidentKind":"bounded_series","incidentDatePrecision":"month","exposurePattern":"unknown","reportedDate":"2025-07-12","aiSystem":"AI deepfake / image-generation software (free online tools, not named)","aiProduct":"Unidentified image tool","severity":"high","verificationStatus":"credible","harmCategories":[],"harmOutcomes":["psychological_distress","reputational_harm","exploitation_or_abuse"],"harmOutcomeSummary":"Some 20 to 30 women had indecent and deepfake images of themselves generated with AI from their social-media photos; victims reported distress and had to share classes with the accused, and the criminal investigation was closed for insufficient evidence, leaving them without redress.","frameworkFacets":[],"causationStatus":"supported","participantUsersAffectedMin":0,"otherPeopleHarmedMin":20,"affectedCountStatus":"documented_minimum","affectedCountEvidence":"CBS and Hong Kong Free Press report 20 to 30 women affected; NBC reports 'more than a dozen'; the PCPD (December 2025) referred to 20 to 30 victims. Documented minimum of 20; the ~700 figure counts images (deepfakes plus unedited saved photos), not people, and is not used as a person count.","victimAgeRange":"adult","jurisdiction":"HK","platformType":"other","outcomeType":"investigation_opened","outcomeStatus":"resolved","primarySourceUrl":"https://hongkongfp.com/2025/07/14/hku-student-who-allegedly-made-700-ai-generated-indecent-images-inc-of-classmates-gets-warning-letter/","primarySourceLabel":"Hong Kong Free Press, 13-14 July 2025: HKU student who allegedly made 700 AI-generated indecent images, inc. of classmates, gets warning letter","firstPublishedAt":"2026-01-29T09:52:32.902523+00:00","updatedAt":"2026-09-30T01:17:04.827976+00:00","scopeVersion":"facts-v3","tags":["deepfakes","hong-kong","university","ncii","sexual-images","legal-gap","investigation","east-asia","depicted-or-impersonated"]},{"id":"2024-new-hampshire-alleged-ai-deepfake-stalking","caseFacts":{"claims":[{"id":"c1","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'had been stalking the victim for about a year.'; 'used AI tools to edit videos and photos showing the victim engaging in sexual acts and other activities that never happened. They said he then shared those videos without the victim's permission.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"'is alleged to have stalked the victim for more than a year, and to have used artificial intelligence tools to manipulate legitimate photographs into synthetic or ‘deepfake’ videos depicting the victim engaged in sexual acts and other activities that never occurred.'; '“These manipulated materials were then shared or disseminated without the victim’s consent,”'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"}],"assertion":"Police allege that the man stalked the woman for more than a year and used artificial intelligence tools to manipulate genuine photographs into synthetic sexual images and videos of her, which were shared without her consent.","causal_attribution":"Police allegations from one press release, relayed by WMUR and the Conway Daily Sun; not tried."},{"id":"c2","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'admitted creating the images from social media accounts and photos of the victim’s apartment.'; 'The woman showed police 130 synthetic images that were posted online.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"},{"locator":"'admitted creating the images from social media accounts and photos of the victim’s apartment.'; 'The woman showed police 130 synthetic images that were posted online.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s3"}],"assertion":"According to the arrest warrant application, as reported by the Conway Daily Sun, he admitted creating the images from social media accounts and photographs, and the woman showed police 130 synthetic images that had been posted online.","causal_attribution":"A detective's arrest warrant application as summarised by one newspaper in two reports; the application itself was not inspected and the admission has not been tested in court."},{"id":"c3","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'was arrested in late October on several charges, including three counts of non-consensual dissemination of private sexual images, fraudulent use of fake photos and videos, stalking and receiving stolen property.'; 'He is being held without bail'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"'was arrested Oct. 25'; 'Three counts of non-consensual dissemination of private sexual images, all Class B felonies.'; 'One count of fraudulent use of deepfakes (a Class B felony)'; 'is being held without bail'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"}],"assertion":"He was arrested in late October 2025 on three counts of non-consensual dissemination of private sexual images, one count of fraudulent use of deepfakes, stalking and receiving stolen property, and was held without bail.","causal_attribution":"Procedural facts from the police press release as reported."},{"id":"c4","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'The indictments were issued on Jan. 16.'; 'indicted on three Class B felonies — one count of fraudulent use of deepfakes and two counts of non-consensual dissemination of private sexual images.'; 'The incidents allegedly occurred on Aug. 31, July 26 and Oct. 26, 2025.'; 'was posted to a pornographic website.'; 'On Feb. 17'; 'pleaded not guilty and waived his arraignment'; 'dispositional conferences scheduled for May 4.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s3"}],"assertion":"A grand jury indicted him on 16 January 2026 on one count of fraudulent use of deepfakes and two counts of non-consensual dissemination of private sexual images for incidents alleged on 26 July, 31 August and 26 October 2025, one indictment alleging that a deepfake image of the woman was posted to a pornographic website. He pleaded not guilty, and a dispositional conference was scheduled for 4 May 2026.","causal_attribution":"The newspaper's report of the indictments and court filings; the indictments are charges, not findings."}],"effects":[{"label":"sexual images and videos of the woman altered with AI tools and shared without her consent, as police allege","claim_id":"c1","direction":"negative"},{"label":"stalking for more than a year, as police allege","claim_id":"c1","direction":"negative"}],"sources":[{"id":"s1","url":"https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/man-accused-of-creating-deepfake-ai-videos-of-person-he-was-stalking/ar-AA1Q0YjD","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"WMUR report read on 2026-10-12 through MSN's syndicated copy (JSON detail endpoint, HTTP 200; publishedDateTime 2025-11-07T17:24Z). It relays the police account.","independence_group":"police-press-release"},{"id":"s2","url":"https://www.conwaydailysun.com/news/local/man-charged-with-synthetic-media-misuse-and-stalking/article_aa71121f-2144-4e3d-8630-029620a9ba97.html","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"Read on 2026-10-12 from an Internet Archive capture of 25 September 2026 (the live site answered HTTP 429); dated 7 November 2025. Quotes the police press release and reports the arrest warrant application.","independence_group":"police-press-release"},{"id":"s3","url":"https://www.conwaydailysun.com/news/local/grand-jury-issues-indictments-for-fake-intimate-images/article_6ad74c7f-27dc-44ca-8404-b966204d7527.html","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"Read on 2026-10-12 from an Internet Archive capture of 25 February 2026 (the live site answered HTTP 429); dated 25 February 2026. Reports the grand-jury indictments made available by the county attorney's office and the not-guilty plea; the indictments themselves were not inspected.","independence_group":"county-court-records"}],"version":1,"ai_roles":["others_use"],"contexts":["privacy","relationships","justice"],"unknowns":["The AI tools used are not identified, and the technical basis for the police attribution is not disclosed beyond the press release, the reported admission and the deepfake charge.","The woman's age and place of residence are not reported.","The arrest date: the Conway Daily Sun gives 25 October 2025 from the police lieutenant, WGME reported the arrest as last Friday in a 7 November 2025 report (31 October), and one indictment dates an alleged offence to 26 October 2025. The record says late October.","When the stalking began; police say it lasted more than a year before the October 2025 arrest. The indictments date the image offences to July, August and October 2025.","Whether the 130 images the woman showed police all came from the accused, and how many were videos.","The case outcome after the dispositional conference scheduled for 4 May 2026; no later report was found on 12 October 2026."],"geography":{"basis":"The police release says several of the alleged offences took place in a New Hampshire town in the county whose sheriff's department joined the investigation, and the indictments were issued by that county's superior court grand jury. Both are in the United States. The woman's place of residence is not stated.","court_countries":["US"],"event_countries":["US"],"affected_person_countries":[]},"publication":{"basis":"Published as a core case (depicted_or_impersonated) on the investigating police's attribution of the sexual images to AI tools, his reported admission, in the arrest warrant application, that he created the images and the grand-jury indictment for fraudulent use of deepfakes. All conduct is attributed as alleged, and he has pleaded not guilty. The accused and the woman are not named, and the accused's home town is omitted.","reviewed_on":"2026-10-12"},"ai_involvement":{"basis":"The investigating police allege, in a press release reported by WMUR and the Conway Daily Sun, that the man used artificial intelligence tools to manipulate genuine photographs into synthetic sexual images and videos of the woman, which were then shared without her consent. The arrest warrant application, as the newspaper reports it, says he admitted creating the images, and a grand jury indicted him for fraudulent use of deepfakes. The tools are not identified, the technical basis for the attribution is not disclosed, and the allegations have not been tried.","status":"reported"},"person_relations":["depicted_or_impersonated"]},"name":"New Hampshire police allege a man used AI tools to make sexual images of a woman he stalked and shared them; he was indicted and pleaded not guilty","summary":"Police in New Hampshire allege that a man stalked a woman for more than a year and used artificial intelligence tools to manipulate genuine photographs into sexual images and videos of her that were shared without her consent. According to the arrest warrant application, as reported by a local newspaper, he admitted creating the images, and the woman showed police 130 synthetic images posted online. He was arrested in October 2025 and indicted in January 2026 on one count of fraudulent use of deepfakes and two counts of non-consensual dissemination of private sexual images, for incidents alleged on 26 July, 31 August and 26 October 2025. He has pleaded not guilty, and no verdict had been reported at review. The people involved are not named here.","incidentDate":"2025-07-26","incidentEndDate":"2025-10-26","incidentKind":"bounded_series","incidentDatePrecision":"day","exposurePattern":"unknown","reportedDate":"2025-11-07","aiSystem":"AI tools used to alter photographs into sexual images and videos (not identified by police)","aiProduct":"Unidentified image and video tool","severity":"high","verificationStatus":"credible","harmCategories":[],"harmOutcomes":["exploitation_or_abuse"],"harmOutcomeSummary":"Police allege that the woman was stalked for more than a year and that AI-altered sexual images and videos of her were shared without her consent. 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The accused is not counted as a harmed person.","victimAgeRange":"adult","jurisdiction":"US","outcomeType":"criminal_charges","outcomeStatus":"pending","primarySourceUrl":"https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/man-accused-of-creating-deepfake-ai-videos-of-person-he-was-stalking/ar-AA1Q0YjD","primarySourceLabel":"WMUR (MSN syndicated copy), 7 November 2025: Man accused of creating deepfake AI videos of person he was stalking","firstPublishedAt":"2026-01-13T10:04:21.00423+00:00","updatedAt":"2026-10-12T03:07:10.662406+00:00","scopeVersion":"facts-v3","tags":["deepfakes","stalking","non-consensual-imagery","new-hampshire","criminal-charges","indictment"]},{"id":"2025-whittemore-chatgpt-murder","caseFacts":{"claims":[{"id":"harm","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"Opening response account, injured survivor paragraph and autopsy paragraph.","relation":"supports","source_id":"police"}],"assertion":"Maine police reported one woman killed and another injured in the 19 February 2025 incident.","causal_attribution":"This source does not establish that AI caused the death."},{"id":"interaction","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"Psychiatrist’s account in the middle of the article.","relation":"supports","source_id":"report"}],"assertion":"Court reporting attributes an account of prolonged ChatGPT use and psychiatric deterioration to a psychiatrist’s evidence.","causal_attribution":"This source does not establish that AI caused the death."},{"id":"outcome","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"Opening ruling and closing disposition paragraphs.","relation":"supports","source_id":"report"}],"assertion":"The report says the court found the man not criminally responsible and placed him in psychiatric custody.","causal_attribution":"The reported ruling concerns criminal responsibility, not a determination of AI causation."}],"effects":[{"label":"Maine police reported one woman killed and another injured in the 19 February 2025 incident.","claim_id":"harm","direction":"negative"}],"sources":[{"id":"police","url":"https://www.maine.gov/dps/msp/media-center/public-releases/arrest-made-and-victims-identified-readfield-homicide","kind":"police_statement","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"English; no translation. Full release body inspected. It gives 19 February 2025 as the response date; the page’s displayed May date conflicts with its contemporaneous wording and is not used as a precise release date.","independence_group":"maine_police"},{"id":"report","url":"https://www.bangordailynews.com/2025/10/17/central-maine/central-maine-police-courts/readfield-maine-giles-road-homicide-samuel-whittemore-not-criminally-responsible-chat-gpt-delusions/","kind":"court_reporting","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"English; no translation. Full article body inspected. 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Allegations, source dependence and limits on causal inference remain explicit.","reviewed_on":"2026-10-05"},"ai_involvement":{"basis":"The reported psychiatric evidence associates sustained chatbot interaction with worsening instability alongside work stress. No specific harmful model reply or independent causal finding was inspected.","status":"reported"},"person_relations":["communicated_with"]},"metadataReview":{"version":1,"geography":{"basis":"The police release places the event in Readfield, Maine. The news article describes the Maine court proceeding.","evidence":[{"kind":"source_body","locator":"The police release places the event in Readfield, Maine. The news article describes the Maine court proceeding.","location":"https://www.maine.gov/dps/msp/media-center/public-releases/arrest-made-and-victims-identified-readfield-homicide","supports":["event_countries"],"countries":["US"]},{"kind":"source_body","locator":"The police release places the event in Readfield, Maine. The news article describes the Maine court proceeding.","location":"https://www.maine.gov/dps/msp/media-center/public-releases/arrest-made-and-victims-identified-readfield-homicide","supports":["affected_person_countries"],"countries":["US"]},{"kind":"source_body","locator":"The police release places the event in Readfield, Maine. The news article describes the Maine court proceeding.","location":"https://www.bangordailynews.com/2025/10/17/central-maine/central-maine-police-courts/readfield-maine-giles-road-homicide-samuel-whittemore-not-criminally-responsible-chat-gpt-delusions/","supports":["court_countries"],"countries":["US"]}],"court_countries":["US"],"event_countries":["US"],"affected_person_countries":["US"]},"unresolved":[],"reviewed_on":"2026-10-05","source_reviews":[{"url":"https://www.maine.gov/dps/msp/media-center/public-releases/arrest-made-and-victims-identified-readfield-homicide","notes":"English; no translation. Full release body inspected. It gives 19 February 2025 as the response date; the page’s displayed May date conflicts with its contemporaneous wording and is not used as a precise release date.","access":"read","language":"en"},{"url":"https://www.bangordailynews.com/2025/10/17/central-maine/central-maine-police-courts/readfield-maine-giles-road-homicide-samuel-whittemore-not-criminally-responsible-chat-gpt-delusions/","notes":"English; no translation. Full article body inspected. It credits Kennebec Journal reporting of the psychiatric evidence and court outcome.","access":"read","language":"en"}]},"name":"Maine homicide case includes reported psychiatric evidence about sustained ChatGPT use","summary":"Maine police reported a woman’s death and another woman’s injuries on 19 February 2025. Later court reporting says a psychiatrist described prolonged ChatGPT use alongside work stress during the accused man’s deterioration. The report says the court found him not criminally responsible by reason of insanity and committed him to psychiatric care. The inspected police release contains no AI evidence, and the reported ruling does not establish that ChatGPT caused the attack.","incidentDate":"2025-02-19","incidentKind":"single_event","incidentDatePrecision":"day","exposurePattern":"cumulative_relationship","reportedDate":"2025-10-17","aiSystem":"ChatGPT, as identified in the cited account","aiProduct":"ChatGPT (reported)","aiCompany":"OpenAI","severity":"critical","verificationStatus":"credible","harmCategories":[],"harmOutcomes":["death","physical_injury","harm_to_others","psychiatric_deterioration"],"harmOutcomeSummary":"Maine police reported a woman’s death and another woman’s injuries on 19 February 2025. Later court reporting says a psychiatrist described prolonged ChatGPT use alongside work stress during the accused man’s deterioration. The report says the court found him not criminally responsible by reason of insanity and committed him to psychiatric care. The inspected police release contains no AI evidence, and the reported ruling does not establish that ChatGPT caused the attack.","frameworkFacets":[],"pathwayDirection":"both","causationStatus":"alleged","participantUsersAffectedMin":1,"otherPeopleHarmedMin":2,"affectedCountStatus":"documented_minimum","affectedCountEvidence":"Counts one user whose psychiatric deterioration is described in reported expert evidence, one killed person and one injured survivor. The user is counted for that reported deterioration, not for his custody. No additional relatives are inferred.","victimAgeRange":"adult","jurisdiction":"US-ME","platformType":"assistant","outcomeType":"lawsuit_dismissed","outcomeStatus":"unknown","primarySourceUrl":"https://www.maine.gov/dps/msp/media-center/public-releases/arrest-made-and-victims-identified-readfield-homicide","primarySourceLabel":"Maine State Police — Readfield homicide release","firstPublishedAt":"2026-01-12T00:34:01.511012+00:00","updatedAt":"2026-10-05T14:55:43.582783+00:00","scopeVersion":"facts-v3","tags":["chatbot"]}]}